What it means to be a Black man in a white Christian workplace

Community is inconvenient. But worth it

By Meagan Manas

When the author got a second car, her life was much easier. But that convenience came at a cost — the small connections between people that build a sense of belonging.

Here we go again: What it means to be a Black man in a white Christian workplace

By Kenneth Young

The pressure to refute the “diversity hire” narrative is exhausting and demoralizing for people of color, writes the associate director of the Massachusetts Council of Churches.

Failure as faithfulness

By Sarah E. Forsyth

The parable of the sower and modern-day design thinkers challenge us to take risks rather than fear failure, writes an associate director for Leadership Education at Duke Divinity’s Thriving Congregations Coordination Program.

How do you care for federal workers losing their livelihoods and vocations?

By David Lewicki

Soup, a reserve fund and protests — these are some ways that a church in Atlanta is responding to families reliant on jobs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Five years after the start of the COVID pandemic, here are three ways congregations continue to be affected

By Leslie Quander Wooldridge

The emergence of COVID changed our lives. Professor and researcher Scott Thumma highlights how congregations have changed.

The hard and surprisingly hopeful lessons for churches five years after COVID

By Edie Gross

Pastors share what they’ve learned about their congregations, about the work of the church and about themselves five years after the pandemic forced most to close their doors.

Leadership questions

•  How is your congregation enabling acts of resistance and resilience in the face of trauma and strife? •  What is the most transformational work of your church?