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June 17, 2013 | Learning to read the Bible well and developing a scriptural way of living requires slow reading, sustained attention and community, writes the New Testament scholar.
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June 17, 2013 | Our broken world needs future leaders who will make the most of their talents by developing these habits, the theologian says.
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June 17, 2013 | Filled with pain, rejected by society, survivors of sexual assault in Kenya are often left directionless and without hope. But a Christian nonprofit is helping them build new lives, says the organization's co-founder.
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June 17, 2013 | A Christian leader reflects on what it took to create a satellite seminary campus in Charlotte, N.C.: planning, strategy – and prayer.
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June 17, 2013 | Every Christian leader needs a gadfly, someone who will cut to the chase and help him or her stay focused on the gospel. For one United Methodist bishop, that was the late Will D. Campbell.
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June 14, 2013 | Christian social entrepreneurs foster change in their communities while creating sustainable organizations. Faith & Leadership offers articles on social entrepreneurship to help Christian leaders apply it to their mission.
Reflection
June 4, 2013 | Our institutions have to become more nimble, more entrepreneurial, more missional if they’re going to have futures, says a theologian and pastor. And that means a change in the nature of ministry.
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June 4, 2013 | Observing sabbath can help save the planet, says a physician who gave up his medical career to devote himself to spreading the gospel of creation care.
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June 4, 2013 | Marlon Hall and Danielle Fanfair of Houston’s Awakenings Movement have developed a set of practices designed to help unlock imagination by removing obstacles to memory.
Reflection
June 4, 2013 | Inherited traditions show how institutions can serve a similar function as liturgies, giving us patterns to hold our longing. For one Christian leader, that tradition was the "yelling mailbox."
Reflection
June 4, 2013 | After a deadly firing-range accident, a Navy chaplain learns that beauty exists even in the wake of tragedy. Search for it and point it out to others, he says, for it is a glimpse of the resurrection.
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June 4, 2013 | Though it receives little attention in the West, access to mental health care is one of the most critical health issues in Africa, says a Kenyan psychiatrist.
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May 31, 2013 | Christian leader Marlon Hall and members of his Awakenings Movement have created a public art project called “Amnesia Therapy,” which is designed to help people in downtrodden neighborhoods remember their past.
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May 21, 2013 | Christian artists work from a deep place of faith, a place of engagement with the Creator of the entire visible universe, says a painter and art professor.
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May 21, 2013 | A young Latino pastor celebrates the church that allows everyone to be whoever they happen to be, working together to create communities of abundant life.