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Program Associate Ryan Bonfiglio shares his recent blog post about the impulse to stockpile, the pull of nostalgia, and what we lessons might learn from Exodus 16. ⁠Read the blog post.⁠...

“Unless we can regenerate the depth of the theological tradition alongside the depth of spiritual transformation, I think our churches deserve to be empty. And I find in the youngest generation this great longing for substance, for real theological substance, and real ascetical demand. People...

TMC Program Staff Adam Borneman, Beth Daniel, and Jennifer Watley Maxell speak with Rev. Dr. Leah Jackson (McAfee School of Theology, Ray of Hope Christian Church) about Sarah Coakley’s call for theological and spiritual depth, why faith can’t be walled off from politics and public...

Fear shapes more of our shared life than we sometimes recognize. It enters our congregations through uncertainty about the future, anxiety over dwindling resources, strained relationships, and the questions we carry about our own adequacy and belonging. In our recent blog series, TMC explored how...

TMC Program Associate Jennifer Watley Maxell speaks with Elizabeth Lynn, Andrew Yeager, and Marthame Sanders about testimony and the power of telling our own stories; why even the most polished AI work still needs a human fingerprint; and what a grandmother’s banana pudding teaches about...

…Jesus asked his disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” And they said, “Some say John the Baptist but others Elijah and still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” He said to them, “But who do you say that I...

Curiosity is indispensable for church leadership – and for faith formation. Gen Z was not supposed to be the religious generation. Pollsters have spent two decades describing this cohort as the most secular in American history, the one that would finally break the chain of belief...

TMC Program Associate Jennifer Watley Maxell speaks with Elizabeth Lynn, Andrew Yeager, and Marthame Sanders about what we lose as we read and speak less; whether the church can be a backstop amid a cacophony of competing voices; and why word and image, story and...

In the days leading up to Hurricane Isaias, people throughout the Gulf Coast region flocked to grocery stores to buy bottled water, milk, toilet paper, and canned goods. The impulse to stockpile in the face of crisis reveals a type of fear that grips many of...