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TagsRajiv Shah: How to solve big problems with big bets
Incremental change isn’t enough to address the world’s problems. Instead, we must work to actually solve them, says the president of the Rockefeller Foundation.
Cooking up new businesses by using church space creatively
Some church kitchens in Wilmington, Delaware, have become launching pads for food industry entrepreneurs.
The church needs innovation instigators
As we’ve learned through COVID-19, faith communities can adapt. Church leaders must be willing to continue sparking change by asking new questions and challenging old answers.
‘With God, later is not late’
A church-led community collaboration 20 years in the making has brought new affordable housing for seniors to Charlotte, North Carolina.
Celeste Kennel-Shank: ‘It was the safest place I knew as a child.’
A pastor and journalist tells the story of the Community of Christ in Washington, D.C., in which she grew up. It was a five-decade-long experiment in living and worshipping in a neighborhood parish that intentionally ended in 2016.
‘On Becoming Wise Together: Learning and Leading in the City’
In this excerpt from the newest book in the Theological Education Between the Times series, an educator considers theological formation as a communal rather than individual undertaking.
Fuller Seminary heads up ambitious ecumenical project to engage millions of young people
Five years in the making, the TENx10 project aims to “help faith matter more” for 10 million teens in 10 years. The effort has involved many groups across the church and might serve as a model for more collaborations.
C. Kavin Rowe: The character of Christian leaders determines their impact
In a recent book, the professor of New Testament looks to Scripture to paint a picture of Christian leadership.
‘Beautiful and Terrible Things’
In this excerpt from her new memoir, the Rev. Dr. Amy Butler writes about being “unemployed and disgraced” after leaving the Riverside Church in the City of New York — then finding joy in her new project, a fund to help closing churches invest their remaining assets.
Considering the future of the 'Old First Church'
In this two-part series, United Methodist Church Bishop Kenneth H. Carter, Jr. and the Rev. Audrey Warren reflect on First Churches -- those anchor congregations in American downtowns. How can these institutions, which may be rich in tradition but strapped for cash, adapt to a changing society?