Nashville nonprofit serves up coffee, soap and empowerment
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Building on strengths
and taking the long view, a Christ-centered nonprofit emerges as a
catalyst for holistic community development.
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Strategy questions- What potential is already present in your community waiting to be invited to contribute?
- How might your organization's work be different if it existed "for" people rather than "because of" people?
The torture inflicted
on Black people dates back to enslavement and continues to this day as a
denial of their humanity, writes the dean of Duke Chapel.
The promises made
through baptism must reflect Christians' commitment to justice and peace
for all people, writes the director of the Thriving Congregations
Coordination Program at Duke Divinity.
Like everything else,
this election season is being complicated by the pandemic. But the
traditional role Black churches have played in encouraging voter turnout
can continue, building on some of what has been learned in the last six
months, says a pastor.
St. Marianne Cope,
driven by her faith to provide medical care to the most vulnerable, also
played a key role in creating hygiene standards.
Poetry from the book
of Lamentations invites us to find words for our feelings and offers a
form to contain that which feels uncontainable and uncontrollable, says a
writer.
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