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Guía para votar desde la fe

By Rachel Baker, Communications Director

Nos complace ofrecerte la Guía del Votante Fiel, un recurso educativo no partidista diseñado para ayudarte a participar en la vida pública desde la perspectiva de la fe, la reflexión y una participación cívica fiel. A través de siete esferas de influencia, te invitamos a reflexionar sobre cómo las políticas públicas pueden promover el bienestar […]

Guía para votar desde la fe

by Rachel Baker, Communications Director

Nos complace ofrecerte la Guía del Votante Fiel, un recurso educativo no partidista diseñado para ayudarte a participar en la vida pública desde la perspectiva de la fe, la reflexión y una participación cívica fiel. A través de siete esferas de influencia, te invitamos a reflexionar sobre cómo las políticas públicas pueden promover el bienestar […]

Abundant Life Study Guide

By Rachel Baker, Communications Director

This study guide is designed to help you explore the interconnectedness of mind, body, and spirit through a faith lens. Over the course of four sessions, you will engage with scripture, reflect on personal and communal well-being, and learn how to foster a supportive, compassionate environment that integrates mental health into the life of your […]

Abundant Life Study Guide

by Rachel Baker, Communications Director

This study guide is designed to help you explore the interconnectedness of mind, body, and spirit through a faith lens. Over the course of four sessions, you will engage with scripture, reflect on personal and communal well-being, and learn how to foster a supportive, compassionate environment that integrates mental health into the life of your […]

A Journey to Understanding Our Immigrant Neighbors

By North Carolina Council of Churches

What do our faith traditions have to say about immigrants and foreigners? What resources do we have for naming forms of oppression and liberation in our society? To think theologically about immigration may not provide people of faith with specific policy solutions; however, it does change the nature of the debate itself, transposing it from […]

A Journey to Understanding Our Immigrant Neighbors

by North Carolina Council of Churches

What do our faith traditions have to say about immigrants and foreigners? What resources do we have for naming forms of oppression and liberation in our society? To think theologically about immigration may not provide people of faith with specific policy solutions; however, it does change the nature of the debate itself, transposing it from […]

2021 Death Penalty Abolition Sabbath Toolkit

By North Carolina Council of Churches

The North Carolina Council of Churches is promoting the weekend of Oct. 8-10, 2021, as Death Penalty Abolition Sabbath and are encouraging all faith communities to learn, preach, and pray about this matter. Please use the information provided –key scriptures, sermon starter, litany, and prayers– on this abolition sabbath weekend and share with your denominations […]

2021 Death Penalty Abolition Sabbath Toolkit

by North Carolina Council of Churches

The North Carolina Council of Churches is promoting the weekend of Oct. 8-10, 2021, as Death Penalty Abolition Sabbath and are encouraging all faith communities to learn, preach, and pray about this matter. Please use the information provided –key scriptures, sermon starter, litany, and prayers– on this abolition sabbath weekend and share with your denominations […]

The Overdose Crisis: The Faith Community Responds Adult Sunday School Guide

By Elizabeth Brewington, Overdose Response Program Coordinator

According to the CDC, in 2020 over 93,300 people died due to an overdose. The Overdose Crisis: The Faith Community Responds works for a more compassionate response to the growing overdose epidemic, and by extension, other forms of substance use. The program was created based on feedback we received from faith communities about an increase in […]

The Overdose Crisis: The Faith Community Responds Adult Sunday School Guide

by Elizabeth Brewington, Overdose Response Program Coordinator

According to the CDC, in 2020 over 93,300 people died due to an overdose. The Overdose Crisis: The Faith Community Responds works for a more compassionate response to the growing overdose epidemic, and by extension, other forms of substance use. The program was created based on feedback we received from faith communities about an increase in […]

Cash Bail Study Guide for Faith Communities

By Lindsay Barth, Event Coordinator & PHW Communications Associate

The information in this electronic folder is the initial information on Money Bail Reform Efforts prepared by members of the North Carolina Council of Churches and representatives of the Bishop’s Committee on Prison Ministry for the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina. The folder will be updated and expanded as work continues on this project. It […]

Cash Bail Study Guide for Faith Communities

by Lindsay Barth, Event Coordinator & PHW Communications Associate

The information in this electronic folder is the initial information on Money Bail Reform Efforts prepared by members of the North Carolina Council of Churches and representatives of the Bishop’s Committee on Prison Ministry for the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina. The folder will be updated and expanded as work continues on this project. It […]

Christian Study for North Carolina’s role in Torture

By Brian Wendelgass, NC No Torture Project Coordinator

This study offers a guide for how to prepare, organize, and conduct a workshop that will produce meaningful conversation and reflection. The document is supported by a comprehensive list of primary sources, relevant news articles, and information from related non-governmental organizations. It is designed to accommodate all levels of familiarity with the topic. The study […]

Christian Study for North Carolina’s role in Torture

by Brian Wendelgass, NC No Torture Project Coordinator

This study offers a guide for how to prepare, organize, and conduct a workshop that will produce meaningful conversation and reflection. The document is supported by a comprehensive list of primary sources, relevant news articles, and information from related non-governmental organizations. It is designed to accommodate all levels of familiarity with the topic. The study […]

Becoming the Church Together: Immigration, the Bible, and Our New Neighbors

By Rose Gurkin, Former Program Associate for Administration

Together we will embark on a course to study the Bible and see how it addresses the issue of modern day immigration. Our goal will be to foster an open, honest, loving, and biblically focused conversation about this important – and controversial – topic. Each lesson focuses on Scripture, while incorporating prayer, activities, videos, and […]

Becoming the Church Together: Immigration, the Bible, and Our New Neighbors

by Rose Gurkin, Former Program Associate for Administration

Together we will embark on a course to study the Bible and see how it addresses the issue of modern day immigration. Our goal will be to foster an open, honest, loving, and biblically focused conversation about this important – and controversial – topic. Each lesson focuses on Scripture, while incorporating prayer, activities, videos, and […]

2014 Lenten Guide: A Time to Mend

By chris

Economic circumstances too often define us. How much we do or do not earn can put us on a path that either buffers our failures or tempers our successes. The people who make the least amount of money have the fewest opportunities to succeed, no matter how much they work or how hard they study. […]

2014 Lenten Guide: A Time to Mend

by chris

Economic circumstances too often define us. How much we do or do not earn can put us on a path that either buffers our failures or tempers our successes. The people who make the least amount of money have the fewest opportunities to succeed, no matter how much they work or how hard they study. […]

Sí, se puede: Celebrating Holy Week & National Farmworker Awareness Week

By chris

Holy Week this year is also National Farmworker Awareness Week (March 24-31). It seems like no accident that the week in which we celebrate Jesus’ service and sacrifice for humanity is the same week that we celebrate the extraordinary gifts that farmworkers offer to our communities. It’s a time when we both remember and look for hope […]

Sí, se puede: Celebrating Holy Week & National Farmworker Awareness Week

by chris

Holy Week this year is also National Farmworker Awareness Week (March 24-31). It seems like no accident that the week in which we celebrate Jesus’ service and sacrifice for humanity is the same week that we celebrate the extraordinary gifts that farmworkers offer to our communities. It’s a time when we both remember and look for hope […]

Eating Well: For Ourselves, For Our Neighbors, For Our Planet

By chris

This comprehensive, intergenerational curriculum focuses on the food we eat and why it matters. Featuring 8 lessons with Scripture, prayers, resources, and activities for young children through adults, “Eating Well” will challenge and inspire your church or community group. Download your copy today. From the Introduction Everyone eats. Our relationship with food is as simple […]

Eating Well: For Ourselves, For Our Neighbors, For Our Planet

by chris

This comprehensive, intergenerational curriculum focuses on the food we eat and why it matters. Featuring 8 lessons with Scripture, prayers, resources, and activities for young children through adults, “Eating Well” will challenge and inspire your church or community group. Download your copy today. From the Introduction Everyone eats. Our relationship with food is as simple […]

Come to the Table: How People of Faith can Relieve Hunger & Sustain Local Farms in NC

By chris

Anyone who happened to be in the basement of Biltmore United Methodist Church in Asheville, N.C., in April of 2007 would have witnessed two miracles. The first was a huge tureen of soup made entirely from produce grown on local farms despite a still-frosty mountain spring. The second was a bit bigger. At tables around the room, over steaming bowls of soup, farmers sat down with leaders in hunger relief; farmworker advocates met with nutritionists; pastors talked with agriculture analysts; community workers and anti-poverty groups shared their perspective with community gardeners and local food processors.

Come to the Table: How People of Faith can Relieve Hunger & Sustain Local Farms in NC

by chris

Anyone who happened to be in the basement of Biltmore United Methodist Church in Asheville, N.C., in April of 2007 would have witnessed two miracles. The first was a huge tureen of soup made entirely from produce grown on local farms despite a still-frosty mountain spring.

The second was a bit bigger. At tables around the room, over steaming bowls of soup, farmers sat down with leaders in hunger relief; farmworker advocates met with nutritionists; pastors talked with agriculture analysts; community workers and anti-poverty groups shared their perspective with community gardeners and local food processors.