Kinfolk: Creating as a Pathway for Young Adult Leadership
Welcome to Kinfolk, where our lives are holier when they are shared together. In the summer of 2012 Kinfolk was a dream. Now, Kinfolk is a thriving young adult community Continue Reading
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The Dream Center Project: Faith-Based Economic and Community Development on J-Street
The Project Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Nashville, Tennessee is launching the Dream Center Project, an ambitious effort to build affordable rental housing in North Nashville, while simultaneously initiating economic Continue Reading
Scripture, Narrative, and Liturgical Reflection: A Three-Legged Stool for Liturgical Preaching
the Rev’d Jay Weldon, Parish of the Good Shepherd, Waban, Massachusetts Introduction I am an Episcopal priest and I preach almost every Sunday. I receive all of the comments that Continue Reading
Faith and Food Justice
Why the Peace Garden Project? I was raised in the south in a pretty fundamentalist Baptist Church, and I have a Muslim sister. Though my beliefs are no longer Continue Reading
The Role of the Church in Racial Reconciliation Dialogue: Instructions from Matthew 15:21-28
On October 5, 2017, Jeffrey Rosen, President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Constitution Center, presented a lecture entitled, “A Question of Citizenship: The Fourteenth Amendment Yesterday and Today,” Continue Reading
Faith Community Support of the Atlanta/Fulton County Pre-Arrest Diversion Initiative
Synopsis of the Project Saint Mark United Methodist Church and Lutheran Church of the Redeemer in Atlanta, Georgia collaborated together with the new Atlanta/Fulton County Pre-Arrest Diversion pilot program to Continue Reading
Confronting Racism in Chatom, Al
Most of my life, I have lived in large cities where people live in anonymity. I have lived in Buffalo, Indianapolis, Mobile, Bremerhaven, Colorado Springs, Atlanta, and Montgomery. In my Continue Reading
Just As I Am: Believer’s Baptism and Intellectual Disability
Introduction I have a friend named Billy. Billy has been a part of my worshiping community at First Baptist Church, Winchester, Virginia for about six years. He sits toward the Continue Reading
The Importance of Reflexivity in Cultivating Pastoral Preaching in Response to Communal Trauma
Laying down your life means making your own faith and doubt, hope and despair, joy and sadness, courage and fear available to others as ways of getting in touch with Continue Reading
Protected: Leading God’s Flock from Rough to Still Water: The Role of the Pastor in Eatonton First United Methodist Church’s Tensions Over Worship
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