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Rock Me, Mercy

By Yusef Komunyakaa
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Komunyakaa wrote this poem the day after the Sandy Hook tragedy as a way of offering healing and compassion.

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The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song

In this tender and expansive reckoning with the meaning of the Black Church in America, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. takes us on a journey spanning more than five centuries.

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The Power of Stories: A Guide for Leading Multi-Racial and Multi-Cultural Congregations

Most congregational leaders find it difficult to resist the dominant cultural expectation that different cultural and ethnic groups should stick to themselves -- especially when it comes to church.

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Building Beloved Community - Traci Blackmon - Burke Lectureship on Religion and Society

Rev. Traci Blackmon is the Executive Minister of Justice & Local Church Ministries for the United Church of Christ and Senior Pastor of Christ The King United Church of Christ in Florissant, MO.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageAlthough the connections are not always obvious, personal change is inseparable from social and political change.

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Outfront: Lesbian Rabbi Fights Intolerance with Love

Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum is spreading light this Hanukkah, not with a menorah, but with love.

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A Seminary President on Finding Grace in the Age of Trump

The theologian Serene Jones, the first woman to head the Union Theological Seminary in New York City, is one of the most visible faces of a group that sometimes seems to have got lost in Donald Trump’s America: the religious left.

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How to Heal the Spiritual Pain of America

Over the past year, streams of commentaries have analyzed the ferocious and alarming combat marking this year’s presidential campaign. Few among them, however, include wide-ranging spiritual or theological accounts of what is transpiring.

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Loaves and Fishes: The Inspiring Story of the Catholic Worker Movement

Dorothy Day’s Loaves and Fishes tells the story of the movement that she cofounded in 1933, the Catholic Worker.

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'What Can We Do About Isis?’: How a Muslim Women’s Network Decided to Fight Terrorist Recruitment

Daisy Khan, founder of the Women's Islamic Initiative for Spirituality and Equality, writes about educating Muslims to resist the false promises made by ISIS.

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Meet the Preacher Behind Moral Mondays

The Reverend William Barber is charting a new path for protesting Republican overreach in the South—and maybe beyond.

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Community Transformation and Healing