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Building Futures from the Ground Up: How Zion’s Closet Is Transforming Title I Schools

By Terence Lester, PhD

(Editor’s note: This is Part 3 of a 4-part series on economic injustice. You can find Part 1 here and Part 2 here. In this post, Dr. Terence Lester shows how compassion can grow into systemic change.)

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In 2016, with the support of my family and board of directors, I launched a campaign called MAP16 (March Against Poverty) to walk from Atlanta, GA, to the White House to raise awareness about homelessness in the U.S.

After the Genocide: The Story of a Rwandan Survivor

By Peggy Faw Gish

Denise Uwimana found herself in the midst of the Rwandan genocide, during which close to a million Tutsi were hunted and slaughtered by Hutu neighbors. Members of her family were killed.

Called to the Ministry of Affordable Housing

By David Lewicki
Over the past few years, our church in Atlanta has become immersed in a new ministry, our eyes opened to a deep need in the community we had never recognized before: affordable

On Food and Faith: Ministry in the Time of Climate Change

By Sarah Withrow King

Three years ago, almost to the day, I shared the following exchange with my son, who was then not quite eight years old.
Son: “Mommy? Can I tell you one thing I’m worried about?

Peacemaking: “When Someone Forgives You Who Shouldn’t”

By Kristyn Komarnicki
One of the most important things Theater of Witness does is to help people humanize each other—to see people who are really different from themselves and be able to say, “If I had

Who Will We Follow?

By Sarah Quezada
Sarah Quezadastop. She discovered two brothers who were worried about their sister. The trio was hungry and thirsty. The young woman, Esmeralda, was dehydrated and had untreated wounds that appeared

A Holy Juxtaposition: 52 Years of Occupation

I loved my moments at the various holy sites like the Church of the Nativity, Sea of Galilee, Garden of Gethsemane, and the Via Dolorosa. All of these places are sacred to my faith and I treasure their memories.

Love the Sinner

By Kristyn Komarnicki
Today marks three years since the Pulse Nightclub shooting, the deadliest incident of violence against LGBTQ people in U.S. history, killing 49. While many rallied with support in the aftermath, far too many

Vegetarianism By Faith

By Rev. Don Ng

Growing up in a Chinese-American home, there was always some kind of meat dish. Even if there wasn’t enough money to buy a prime cut of beef, there was always lop-cheung, sausages that came tied in bunches with the string used to dry them in the butcher shop.

“Sometimes I Cry”

By Marvin Perkins Jr.

Watch as Give Back Films documents Marvin Perkins Jr., who is living without a home, reciting a poem he wrote about his life.

Can Empathy Change the World?

By Belinda Bauman and Natalie Salminen Rude
One Million Thumbprints is an organization committed to seeking the end to violence against women and girls in conflict zones. Fueled by the story of Esperance, a Congolese woman who used her thumbprint as her signature with the request to “tell the world” her story, the heart and mission of One Million Thumbprints was born.

Prayer Liturgy for Pentecost

By Christine Sine

God, the light of your Spirit has fallen upon us,
The seal of your ownership is on us,
You have placed the Holy Spirit in our hearts.
Like tongues of fire it has renewed and restored.

I Cannot Do This Alone

By Dietrich Bonhoeffer

O God, early in the morning I cry to you.

Help me to pray

And to concentrate my thoughts on you;

I cannot do this alone.

When You Abide With God in Sabbath…

By Shelly Miller
When you abide with God in Sabbath, an unshakable confidence shines from the inside out, enticing others toward the gift of rest as well.

God Speaks in the Voice of the Stranger: A Review of Barbara Brown Taylor’s “Holy Envy”

By Kristyn Komarnicki
I relished this book, devouring it slowly, returning to its most delicious bits over and over again, and thanking God for the author and her spiritual adventure with every nutritious bite. And as I sit down to write this, I’m very aware of a couple of things:

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