Reflections & Research
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August 10, 2021
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.
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The path to reparations
Beyond the first step of acknowledgment, some faith communities are taking up concrete reparations as a way of demonstrating authentic repentance for their role in systemic oppression.
read moreabout The path to reparationsJuly 27, 2021
What Paul teaches us about coping with trauma
A clinical psychologist, poet and professor reads the letters of Paul through a psychological lens and identifies keys to his resilience and positive religious coping — and how those strategies might help Christians today.
read moreabout What Paul teaches us about coping with traumaJune 29, 2021
Tito Madrazo: ‘God in the crucible of migration’
The close connection between the lived experiences of Hispanic/Latinx pastors in the United States and the lived experiences of their congregants creates a powerful dynamic in preaching, author Tito Madrazo says in this interview about his new book, “Predicadores: Hispanic Preaching and Immigrant Identity.”
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