An inside view of the Orthodox convert surge

 ‘Weathering Change: Seeking Peace Amid Life’s Tough Transitions’

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Public health from the pulpit: First steps for clergy to help create healthier communities BY ALEJANDRA SALEMI

A church and health center collaborate to provide care for people with substance use disorder BY LINDSAY PEYTON

Lessons from my mother’s hospital bedside

By Shannon Hopkins

A writer considers what it means to walk beside a loved one near the end of life.

‘The Pink Robe Chronicles: Womanist Wisdom for Healing, Liberation, and Love’

By Melva L. Sampson

In an excerpt from her new book, a professor and preacher draws on childhood lessons about the importance of using her voice.

How do you love your enemies in a time of war?

By Doug Hostetter

After 60 years of working for peace in Vietnam and Iran, a Mennonite peace pastor says human relationships are the key to understanding that we all are created in the image of God.

What Bananagrams teaches us about getting unstuck in church property development

By Mark Elsdon

Learning to remain flexible, change plans and find new solutions is key to church property development.

An inside view of the Orthodox convert surge

By Jenny Haddad Mosher

An Orthodox educator takes issue with popular notions of why people are joining Orthodox parishes in America; converts are not exclusively “Orthobros,” she says, but people seeking connection with others and with God.

‘Threads of Community’: Quilting and the Black church

Video by Brianna Jackson

Members of a sewing ministry and an artist share the way in which quilting honors tradition while also serving as a form of self-expression.