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November 16, 2021

Michael Plekon: Stories tell you about the struggle to keep being the church

Church decline can’t be denied, but there is hope in the many stories of resurrection, says a sociologist and Orthodox priest.

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Incubator for discipleship

Rather than investing in a single, institutionally driven project, an Austin church is inviting parishioners to come up with innovative ways to serve their city — and providing initial funding.

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Pauli Murray lived between and ahead

A new documentary focuses on the attorney, activist, poet and priest whose life’s work continues to influence battles for justice.

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How our pandemic experience might help the church engage “nones” and “dones”

Let’s leverage a year of forced innovation to be church in a way that attracts people who really are done with religion, writes a minister at a Greenwich Village church.

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