Community

Duane Shank 2-01-2006
Poverty solutions that transcend ideology.
Daniel Charles 12-01-2005

Whether founding schools or fixing toilets, Nelson good embodied community and faithful living.

Beth Newberry 3-01-2005

With fierce faith, Julia Bonds works to save the land and people of West Virginia.

Julie Polter 1-01-2005
A glimpse of grace and abundance from - of all things - reality TV.
Charles Marsh 1-01-2005
An excerpt of the book: The Beloved Community

The largest gathering of American Indians in U.S. history came together in Washington, D.C., in September for the opening of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian.

Julie Polter 12-01-2004
Reading passionately isn't about escaping reality, but about plunging further into it.
Elizabeth Maxwell 12-01-2004
In telling their stories, guests at the Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen feast on divine mystery.
Danny Duncan Collum 12-01-2004

An interview with Paul Elie on faith, writing, and the "School of the Holy Ghost."

Susannah Hunter 11-01-2001

A year of voluntary service has become a rite of passage for thousands of socially conscious young Christians.

David Batstone 5-01-2001

'If Buddhism helps them, so be it, but maybe they just need to be better Christians or better Jews.'

Catherine Meeks 3-01-2001

What does it take to create community? A calm and tender manner isn't a bad place to start.

Eric DeBode 1-01-2001

The Word on the Street has the potential to be a book about two theologians who volunteer at a soup kitchen, feel good about themselves, and write heart-warming stories about their experiences.

Chris Rice 3-01-2000
If those who know me really knew me, what would they think of me?
Chris Rice 7-01-1999

With our family's move last year from urban Jackson, Mississippi, to small-town Vermont, I exchanged the blackest state for the whitest and neighborhood drive-bys for wild turkey dive-bys.

Rocky Kidd 7-01-1999

Little Calumet Christian Fellowship is the first Mennonite church in North America to intentionally form a Generation X congregation with pastoral leadership from within that generation.

Carter Echols 5-01-1999
Y2K as a call to community.
Kelley E. Evans 5-01-1999
cup in a tiny, single-serving French press. Some mornings I rush out of the house and leave the coffee-making for someone at the office, but I usually regret this.
Urban churches bridge barriers of neighborhood, class, and race
Joe Nangle 3-01-1999

The final column of a six-year run gives the author permission to write in the first person, wouldn't you say?