For Black teachers and Black churches: A wonder
The work of African American educators can serve as a model for churches, particularly as some public schools limit curriculum, a pastor writes.
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Responding to gun violence
From the archives of Faith & Leadership and others, we offer resources to help Christian leaders respond to recent mass shootings, including guidance on how to talk to children.
Pride and pressure: The Easter speech
A tradition rooted in Black excellence has served as a celebration of the resurrection and a training ground for generations of children.
Link to author Cynthia R. Greenlee
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Cynthia R. Greenlee
Journalist
Karen-Marie Yust and Erin Reibel: Helping create a space of spiritual nurture for children and their families
Research, social science and of-the-moment culture are adapted and translated in a project to support children’s spirituality.
When the pandemic closed schools, an existing network of congregations and others jumped in to offer meals — and more
Churches, government agencies and nonprofits that already served struggling families responded to the pandemic by ramping up their shared mission beyond providing children with summer meals.
Link to author Dan Holly
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Dan Holly
Journalist
Women clergy and the pandemic: Weary, but not giving up
In these profiles, four clergywomen share their pandemic stories. Like many American women, they’ve struggled to balance work, home and community in lives upended by the coronavirus.
Link to author Yonat Shimron
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Yonat Shimron
Journalist
Changing lives by changing how we live
There are steps we can take to help offset a purpose gap rooted in historical and contemporary oppressions, writes the senior director of learning design with the Forum for Theological Exploration.
Link to author Patrick B. Reyes
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Patrick B. Reyes
Senior director of learning design, Forum for Theological Exploration
'It must be you.' A nonprofit helps Latino Catholic young adults grow in faith and build community
Iskali was created by a 19-year-old to support other young adults in the church. More than a decade later, it offers faith formation, mentorship, scholarships and other opportunities for a new generation to grow in Christ.
Link to author Shanna Johnson
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Shanna Johnson
Journalist
Sometimes the best way to move forward is to stop
Rather than pouring time and energy into what’s not working, be willing to stop, listen and try something different, writes a managing director of Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
Link to author Victoria Atkinson White
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Victoria Atkinson White
Managing director, Leadership Education at Duke Divinity
Eat. Pray. Skate: A skateboarding ministry offers unconditional love to teens
Serious JuJu is a ministry that meets young people where they are -- in a skate park.
Link to author Katie Cantrell
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Katie Cantrell
Journalist
We are physical beings -- what if our ministries reflected that?
Physical labor and activity have been a boon to teens during the pandemic, leading a youth pastor to realize that the physical matters -- to us and to God.
Link to author Matt Overton
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Matt Overton
Associate pastor, Columbia Presbyterian Church, Vancouver, Washington
