Residents find new life at the corner of Goodness Way and Peaceful Path in Community First! Village in Austin, Texas. Photos by Brian Diggs
People who were homeless find housing -- and community -- at an RV/tiny home village
Housing alone can’t heal the wounds of homelessness. That also takes community. Just outside Austin, people are finding both at Community First! Village.
Episode 7: Daniel Black on why black history is white history
In this episode of “Can These Bones,” co-host Bill Lamar has a wide-ranging conversation with author and professor Daniel Black about his novel “The Coming,” which is set during the middle passage; his commitment to the black church; and why “music does for the heart what reading does for the head.”
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Stanley Hauerwas: 'The Character of Virtue: Letters to a Godson'
The theologian talks about his new book, a collection of letters about virtues and character that he wrote annually to his godson Laurence Bailey Wells, the son of his friends Samuel and Jo Bailey Wells.
It's important that white people who care about racial reconciliation and healing have difficult conversations in their own communities -- such as church, says Carolyn B. Helsel. Bigstock/Kasia Bialasiewicz
Carolyn B. Helsel: How can white Christians talk faithfully about racism?
White people may feel shame and guilt about racism -- but that should not halt the conversation, says the author of the new book “Anxious to Talk About It.”
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Victoria Atkinson White: We create in community
Holy friends help us see the truth about ourselves and our contexts when it’s time to do something new, writes the managing director of grants at Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
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Angela Gorrell: Rejoicing and mourning online
Many Christian leaders want to make sure their institutions are using the right technology for ministry. But social media use is also a pastoral issue; social media spaces are places where people experience both joy and pain, writes an associate research scholar at the Yale Center for Faith & Culture.
Worship at Convergence takes many forms, including this Bible study and collage-making event.
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Art and faith converge at a hybrid church/community arts center
Art shapes faith and faith shapes art at Convergence, a combination church and arts center that makes space for the creative exploration that artists crave -- and the church needs.