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During the school year, Memphis Athletic Ministries hosts basketball leagues for teams that include participants in MAM programs as well as school, church and recreational teams from across the city. Photos courtesy of Memphis Athletic Ministries

Youth & Children, Education, K-12

Memphis Athletic Ministries for youth isn't just recreational and educational. It's incarnational.

The real aim of MAM isn’t to teach basketball to the 700 kids who show up every day. It is to build community and strengthen families by demonstrating God’s love.

Students at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley take part in a peanut butter and jelly sandwich outreach program. Once a week they offer their fellow students a sandwich and an opportunity to learn about God. Photo courtesy of Baptist Student Ministry

Education, Higher education, Vocation

A campus ministry on the U.S.-Mexico border trains young Christians to lead

Life on the border is difficult. But the Baptist Student Ministry of the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley is working to help young adults who live there leverage their own strength and resilience to step out as leaders of the Valley and the nation.

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Education, Seminary, Theological Reflection

Nicholas Wolterstorff: Looking back on a life of wonder and grief

In this interview, an icon in Christian philosophy talks about the wonder, growth and pain in his professional and personal life.

Education, Seminary, Theological Reflection

Excerpt: 'In This World of Wonders: Memoir of a Life in Learning'

To close the final chapter of his new memoir, renowned philosopher and theologian Nicholas Wolterstorff tells how he became a student while discussing his own book with prison inmates.

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Education, K-12, Vocation

David I. Smith: What being Christian has to do with how we teach

Formation happens not only from what students are taught but also from how they are taught, says a scholar of faith and learning. What are the implications for teachers who are Christian?

Lighting candles, drinking wine and eating challah bread are home-based practices for the beginning of the Jewish Sabbath. Many American Jews, especially millennials, are rejecting institutional religion and instead are seeking guidance in practicing Jewish traditions. Bigstock / Photo by Ungvar

Innovation, Education, Congregations

Barak Richman and Daniel Libenson: What is the role of the 21st-century rabbi?

The decline in religiosity among American Jews should prompt a reappraisal of how religious leaders are trained and deployed in Jewish institutions, say an academic and a practitioner.

Jonathan Harris, executive director of life skills education at The House DC after-school program, speaks to teens in an afternoon teaching session. Photos by Mike Morones

Youth & Children, Education, K-12, Innovation

The House DC offers hot meals, a safe space and a sense of community to at-risk teens

A Christian after-school program in one of the District of Columbia’s most challenging neighborhoods gives students a sense of hope.

Vocation, Education, Higher education

Neichelle Guidry: Leading the vocational journey through the lens of sisterhood

The Dean of Chapel at Spelman College talks about her vocation -- helping form black millennial women in ministry and faith.

From left to right, North Carolina Central University Interfaith Ambassadors Khalid Oloko, Charity Brown, Maryam Awan, Kelly Thomas, Joshua McLaurin and Lyric Harris at the Interfaith Youth Core Leadership Institute in Chicago. Photo courtesy of Gloria Winston-Harris.

Reconciliation, Interfaith, Education, Higher education

Gloria Winston-Harris: Conflict is healthy and can promote interfaith understanding

In an interfaith setting, resolving conflict as quickly as possible isn’t the goal. Rather, healthy conflict can be a spark that leads us to self-awareness, self-reflection and transformation, writes the director of North Carolina Central University’s Office of Spiritual Development and Dialogue.

The author speaks at First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta's "TheoEd Talks," a creative example of church-based theological education. Photo courtesy of First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta

Education, Seminary, Congregations

Ryan P. Bonfiglio: Let's make the church a center of theological education again

For almost 500 years, the church has been outsourcing theological education to seminaries and divinity schools. It’s time to return some of that task to local churches, says a seminary scholar and teacher.

A learning resource for Christian leaders and their institutions from Leadership Education at Duke Divinity