How One Woman Took a Taboo Topic - Death - and Made it OK to Talk About It
Every month, Gail Rubin pulls up to her computer’s webcam, launches a Zoom conference and takes a dozen or two guests on a journey into a deeply...
Passover and Beyond: Women Rabbis Are Saving Mother Earth
When Rabbi Ellen Bernstein founded Shomrei Adamah: Keepers of the Earth, in 1988, it was pioneering as the first national Jewish environmental orga...
Caring for Every Living Thing on This Planet
Growing up as the daughter of parents who were missionaries and a father who was a science teacher, Katharine Hayhoe never saw any opposition betwe...
Honoring Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Each year, on the third Monday of January, we celebrate the life and accomplishments of influential American civil rights leader Martin Luther King...
How to Join or Start a Giving Circle (It’s Awesome and Easy)
If you want to practice solidarity and generosity and become personally involved with the people and causes you care about, you might want to join...
How to Incorporate Microkindnesses Into Your Life
“It doesn’t cost anything to be nice.” “Be the change you want to see.” But most importantly, “No act of kindness, no matter how small,...
Helping Young Latinx Writers Find Their Voice
Today, Colombia is one of the most popular tourist destinations for Americans, with its beaches, cuisine, and festivals drawing adventurers and foo...
How 'The Farm Chicks' Helped Create a Culture Around Upcycling and Vintage Wares
It started 19 years ago as a small charity fundraiser in a friend’s barn on the eastern Washington prairie when Serena Thompson gathered friends...
How Churches Are Joining the Sustainability Movement
Nearly seven years ago, Martha Blume and Marj Chapman got on a bus with a few members of their church and headed to Manhattan for the People's Clim...
A Church Recovers After a Tumultuous Year of COVID-19
For a long time, Valencia Jenkins-Mann wasn’t sure if she wanted to get the shot. It wasn’t that Mann didn’t believe COVID-19 was real. She...
'Ms. Finch's List': How One Tennessee Woman Vaccinated Hundreds
They call it “Ms. Finch’s list.” From her home in Knoxville, Tennessee, former hospice healthcare professional Cynthia Finch has spent the la...
Defying Her Culture, She Launches Mental Health Business
Growing up, Sahaj Kohli faced many challenges similar to other children of immigrants: reconciling the culture of her Indian parents with her own a...
Answering the Call in Koreatown, FACE to Face
As the daughter of Korean immigrants who worked as ministers in Southern California, Hyepin Im got an up-close view at the challenges faced by the...
Let There Be (Solar-Powered) Light
For 30 years, Ark Refuge Ministries has worked to help restore the lives of those recovering from drug addiction, as well as people who have strugg...
Helping the Homeless Feel Like They Belong
Marla Bautista had already suffered the loss of her father and mother when an abusive stepfather kicked her out at age 18. With nothing but a teddy...
Trees of Life: Faith-Based Planting in Maryland
At the Guru Gobind Singh Foundation, an 800-member Sikh temple in Rockville, Maryland, big changes have been afoot — all in the name of helping t...
Black Church Raises Flag on Green Crisis
Experts have long rung the climate change alarm, noting the impact that a warming planet might see. But right now in 2020 — with almost the entir...
South Asian Women's Sanctuary in South Florida
Every year, millions of women experience emotional and physical abuse at the hands of intimate partners. Over the years, resources and legal protec...
Religious Bridge Building in the Heartland
When you think of Omaha, Nebraska, you might imagine its bitter winters, top-notch steaks, and famous hometown billionaire, Warren Buffett. But wha...
Sisters Saving Mother Earth
It was five years ago that Pope Francis released Laudato Si': On Care for Our Common Home, a monumental 225-page encyclical that called on humans t...
Women Ministers Fight to Be Seen — and Respected
Reverend Dr. Natasha Gadson, 45, isn’t a stereotypical minister. In her words, she’s “girly,” loves stilettos, and has a penchant for fashi...
Sew There: Southern Churches Aid Front-Line Workers
As the coronavirus pandemic struck the nation over the winter and spring, Americans scrambled: Grocery store shelves were emptied of toilet paper...
Minnesota Mother of Adopted Black Sons Protests Floyd Death
It was a cloudy afternoon on the last day of May in Ottertail, Minn., when Marcy Ugstad decided that she had to do something. Across the nation, pr...
