Queering southern hospitality

 

A priest whose life has been shaped by suicide offers a book to help others Q&A WITH RHONDA MAWHOOD LEE We are not OK. Does it help to start saying so? BY ALETA PAYNE

How some churches offer professional counseling to congregants, letting overextended pastors focus on spiritual guidance BY MELISSA KUIPERS

How to preach the good news when you are suffering BY LYDIA SHIU

‘Embodied Reconciliation: Congregational Healing as Pastoral Care’

By Leanna K. Fuller

In this excerpt, a scholar asks, What are the tasks of pastoral care and leadership in the wake of conflict or tension within a community of faith?

How can the Black church combat the erasure of Black history?

By Kenneth Young

The current threats to Black historical memory should serve as a call for Christian leaders to preserve, celebrate and commemorate Black history, says a pastor of a historic church.

Queering southern hospitality

By Claire Brown

How churches practice welcome in the rural South.

Why religious leaders need to understand agentic AI

By Heidi A. Campbell

To ignore or remain silent about the agentic revolution is to forfeit the ability to shape and speak into the moral framework of a world already being reshaped by agentic intelligence, writes a scholar.

Why are Christian congregations important today?

By Alaina Kleinbeck and David L. Odom

The Forum for Congregational Life will work to facilitate learning among all types of congregations in ways that strengthen and support them.

Beyond church walls, common threads catalyze communities

By Edie Gross

Faith & Leadership checks in with three previously featured projects about their continued learning and growth over recent years.