Lessons from lions: Acknowledging failures as well as successes

Election resources for churches updated for 2024

With election season in full swing, here’s a collection of essays, book excerpts, interviews and other resources to help faith leaders and their communities navigate the weeks ahead.

 

Podcast: ‘David Armijo: Invest in Your People’

Giving your employees the freedom to fail can unlock new skills and push boundaries, says an executive with over 20 years of experience.

Making something with your hands can be a kind of Sabbath

By Christine Hribar

Creating a tangible handmade item like a knitted sweater, a carved spoon or a hand-dyed apron provides comfort and healing, writes a minister and handwork educator.

Lessons from lions: Acknowledging failures as well as successes

By Victoria Atkinson White

When we focus only on the shiniest success stories, we miss out on what we can learn from the realities of failure, writes a director of grants for Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.

Sweeping the labyrinth and inviting others into our lonely questions

By Laura M. Fabrycky

Spiritual practices may not always provide the answers we seek, but they can encourage us to keep asking questions.

Mental health includes learning to live wisely

Q&A with Warren Kinghorn

Rather than focusing on fixing symptoms, the professor and psychiatrist describes in a new book how to reframe mental health care as learning to live more wisely and fully in the world.

The Ignatian Solidarity Network continues the Jesuit legacy of social justice

By Jim Sweeney

A 20-year-old organization based in Ohio draws on 500-year-old teachings to form young activists from across the country.