Reflections & Research
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November 17, 2015
Alaina Kleinbeck: A white youth worker’s call to anti-racist youth ministry
Jesus interrupts violence with peace, and hate with love. The director of Duke Youth Academy says she has been called into the work of interruption, leading conversations with young white people about race, police brutality and injustice.
read moreabout Alaina Kleinbeck: A white youth worker’s call to anti-racist youth ministryOctober 6, 2015
A community grows its way out of poverty
A pastor in rural North Carolina has developed a farming and beekeeping operation that improves the health of local residents while training a new generation.
read moreabout A community grows its way out of povertySeptember 22, 2015
Mihee Kim-Kort: Pastors don’t have to choose between ministry and management
The church needs leaders who are theologians and CEOs. And seminaries and denominations should prepare pastors to be both, writes an elected member of the Presbyterian Mission Agency Board.
read moreabout Mihee Kim-Kort: Pastors don’t have to choose between ministry and managementAugust 25, 2015
Dominique D. Gilliard: Reclaiming the power of lament
In an age of nonstop media that exposes us as never before to the world’s pain and brokenness, lamentation is an essential and even revolutionary act, one that the church needs desperately to reclaim, says a young pastor.
read moreabout Dominique D. Gilliard: Reclaiming the power of lament