Church
Is Brazil’s Universal Church of the Kingdom of God a field hospital or a marketplace?
A look inside the thriving (and sometimes controversial) neo-Pentecostal denomination
Leveraging the power of relational organizing in Baltimore
“The historical truth is that no single person—no matter how gifted—has led complex social change on her own.”
Do millennials bring something new to leadership?
Three authors, one Jewish, one Muslim, and one Christian, place their hope firmly in a new generation—again.
Beauty from ugliness on the US-Mexico border
Presbyterian border ministry in Douglas, Arizona, and Agua Prieta, Sonora
Author Walter Wangerin’s many lives and words
Those of us who worked with him sometimes suspected he had cloned himself.
A father and his dying daughter came to see me. They wanted different things.
Sometimes truth is better than comfort.
Willimon and Hauerwas’s out-of-season words on pastoral care
Pastors coping with the pandemic need our encouragement, not our carping.
Pastoral care is part of Christian formation
A response to Will Willimon and Stanley Hauerwas
This Seattle church’s stained-glass Jesus was far too White
So a local artist found a creative way to cover him up.
How will history judge Latin American churches’ COVID response?
Likely with both praise and blame.
The labor that pays my salary
Survival under capitalism makes demands on our flesh—and some of us have to pay more than others.
Restoring bicycles—and lives—in Memphis
Revolutions Bicycle Cooperative, a church-based bike shop with a social vision
The Naming Project is a Christian camp that celebrates LGBTQ teens as they are
“We ask questions like, who am I? Who did God make me to be?”
It takes faith to resist the attention economy
We need to relearn a capacity to dwell in God’s presence.
The dangers of providing pastoral care
Woundedness is the predictable price we pay for being sent on outrageous assignments by Jesus.
In Mediterranean Europe, St. Benedict the Moor is back
The Afropean saint is reemerging amid a swelling African diaspora.
How I changed my mind about same-sex marriage
It began when I realized the church has always had a process for changing its mind.
The Pope Francis of India?
Bishop Philipose Mar Chrysostom worked with unlikely partners—including communist leaders in Kerala—to bring about social change.
Ending food insecurity will take more than community fridges
It’s beautiful when people come together to protect their hungry neighbors. It’s appalling that they have to.
How I learned to love church coffee
“The coffee is much better now that we attend a Lutheran church,” I told my husband, wailing.