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Songs and Stuffed Animals Instead of Sermons

January 23, 2019

RICHLANDTOWN, Pa. (RNS) — The seven women, most in wheelchairs, sat in a semicircle facing stained-glass windows and an altar topped with a cross and a statuette of Jesus holding a lamb. Underneath the draped table was an ark-shaped container brimming with small stuffed animals.

Faith & Culture

Redesigning Sacred Spaces to Serve Their Communities — and Save Their Congregations

January 4, 2019

author: Caroline Cunningham

PHILADELPHIA (RNS) — the crowd at the Philadelphia Center for Architecture was packed in, clergy shoulder to shoulder with architects, ordinary citizens with community organizers. They gathered to see the results of Infill Philadelphia, a design competition hosted in the city to improve community spaces.

72. Elijah Brown
Elijah Brown, general secretary of the Baptist World Alliance, talks with Word&Way Editor & President Brian Kaylor during the Churchnet spring gathering in St. Louis. He discusses the work of Baptists in South Korea, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Venezuela, Bangladesh, and elsewhere. He also urges Baptists to head to Together 2020 in Rio. (This episode is sponsored in part by…
71. Church-State Legislation
This special episode features testimony by Word&Way Editor & President Brian Kaylor before the Missouri Senate's Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee. The hearing featured debate over a proposed bill to ban anonymity in lawsuits involving the Establishment Clause. This episode also features updates on bills encouraging "Bible literacy" courses in public schools (that was previously explored…
70. Amanda Tyler
Amanda Tyler, executive director of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, talks with Word&Way Editor & President Brian Kaylor during the BJC's Shurden Lectures on the campus of William Jewell College in Liberty, Mo. She talks about several critical church-state issues that have sparked headlines in 2019, including "Bible literacy" legislation, religious liberty and the death…
69. Aidsand Wright-Riggins
In this episode, Word&Way Editor & President Brian Kaylor interviews Aidsand Wright-Riggins, former executive director of American Baptist Home Mission Societies, co-director of the New Baptist Covenant, and mayor of Collegeville, Penn. Wright-Riggins talks about religious liberty, racism, and ministry. This interview was recorded as he visited the Kansas City area to give the Baptist Joint Committee for…

Songs and Stuffed Animals Instead of Sermons

Redesigning Sacred Spaces to Serve Their Communities — and Save Their Congregations

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