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Gretchen E. Ziegenhals: How to host online meetings with Christian hospitality
Virtual gatherings are here to stay, so let’s host them well, writes a managing director of Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
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Poet and writer Carolina Hinojosa-Cisneros and her daughter, Brooklyn Yesenia Cisneros. Hinojosa-Cisneros says a story can be a thread between generations. Photo by Erasmo Cisneros
Carolina Hinojosa-Cisneros: Why storytelling matters
When the church uses storytelling, it becomes a shared space where each person is a part of history, writes a poet and author.
Participants in programs at the Boston Faith & Justice Network are empowered to take concrete action, such as tending fields, to transform communities. Photos courtesy of BFJN
A justice network equips participants to live simply, give generously
Through various programs on economic discipleship, the Boston Faith & Justice Network is inspiring Christians to put biblical values into practice, including rethinking how they’re spending their time and money.
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Steve Watson: How we read the Bible as a post-evangelical church
When a pastor and his congregation found that their practice of daily Bible study was not working for them anymore, they adapted their spiritual formation.
Female divers off the coast of Korea often hold their breath for several minutes at a time. When they emerge for air, they first exhale, emitting a distinctive cry, and then breathe in. Image from LisaSee.com/Financial Times
Gretchen E. Ziegenhals: Singing the life-giving song of exhalation
Korean sea divers exhale before they inhale, modeling a crucial pattern for sustaining the Christian life: exhaling for rest before inhaling for work.
Sister Jane Meuse, Elandria Williams, Rachel Plattus and Sister Lorita Moffatt gather for conversation during a residency in which young adults lived at the Sisters of Mercy's convent to learn about their way of life. Photo courtesy of Nuns & Nones
Nuns & Nones brings together religiously unaffiliated young adults and Catholic sisters
A six-month convent residency in California gave a group of millennials a window into communal living and discipline.
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Gretchen E. Ziegenhals: A prayer to begin the day
An ancient prayer helps today’s Christian leaders remember that God is already with us in our work, blessing, guiding and teaching us, writes a managing director at Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
Before reciting her vows, Sister Joanna kneels before Sister Anne Marie, superior of Valley of Our Lady Monastery. Photos by Kevin Clark
Sister Joanna takes the final step to monastic life
After years of discernment, a young Catholic woman enters the monastery -- and a life of prayer as a cloistered nun.
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Kendall Vanderslice: Baking as embodied prayer
When the author doesn’t have words for prayer, she pulls out flour and leavening. Her hands transform the ingredients and express to God her lamentation and her hope, her fear and her joy.
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Kathy Khang: Practicing an embodied faith through yoga
Becoming a certified yoga teacher has deepened her connections to her evangelical Christian faith, writes the director of campus access initiatives with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA.