May 30, 2017
Allen T. Stanton: What can the rural church offer a declining community? Hope
Many rural communities face decline. The church has a unique ability to stand in the hard realities and still preach hope, writes a rural pastor.
April 18, 2017
Laura Dunn: Seeing the world of Wendell Berry
The director of ‘Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry’ says her film is an effort to transport viewers to the world of the Kentucky poet and farmer — his place — what he sees, and what he cares about.
March 8, 2016
Jacob Paul Breeze: Pray, believe, live — a rural congregation discovers the gift of liturgy
Everyone knows that a ‘small, country church’ isn’t interested in liturgy or making changes. But a young pastor found otherwise at Shady Grove UMC in Providence, North Carolina.
October 6, 2015
Allen T. Stanton: Community engagement and the rural church
In declining rural communities, churches are some of the few viable institutions. They can use this position to help strengthen the wider community, writes the rural church fellow at the Institute for Emerging Issues.