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Closest to the Pain, Closest to the Power
Pearla Lagrosa Pearla Lagrosa

Closest to the Pain, Closest to the Power

What happens when the people closest to a neighborhood’s needs are trusted with the resources to shape its future? Angel S. Brown shares what she’s learned about community wealth, local giving, and building lasting change block by block.

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Taste the Table
Pearla Lagrosa Pearla Lagrosa

Taste the Table

As autumn invites us to gather, Taste the Table explores how shared meals, hospitality, and making room for one another can help our neighborhoods flourish together.

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What Has Your Place Taught You?
Pearla Lagrosa Pearla Lagrosa

What Has Your Place Taught You?

Every place forms its people. Nathan Daniel Blake reflects on five characteristics of a redeemed Appalachian spirituality and invites us to consider what our own places have been teaching us.

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Back to School and Back to the Neighborhood
Pearla Lagrosa Pearla Lagrosa

Back to School and Back to the Neighborhood

As a new school year begins, our neighborhoods come alive with familiar rhythms and new connections. What if going back to school could also be an invitation to go deeper into our neighborhoods? Discover how small acts of attention, contribution, and welcome can help us build stronger school and neighborhood communities.

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Mapping Confession: What If Your City's Map Could Be a Prayer?
Pearla Lagrosa Pearla Lagrosa

Mapping Confession: What If Your City's Map Could Be a Prayer?

What if the map of your city could be read as a confession? Jennifer Allen Craft’s Mapping Confession / Placing Repentance invites us to look honestly at the histories, divisions, and wounds embedded in our places, and to imagine how confession might become a first step toward repair and renewal.

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Introducing the Residency in Place
Pearla Lagrosa Pearla Lagrosa

Introducing the Residency in Place

Meet the inaugural Residency in Place cohort, a community of neighborhood-rooted leaders learning from one another while cultivating faithful presence, creativity, and renewal in the places they call home.

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Plant Your Feet
Pearla Lagrosa Pearla Lagrosa

Plant Your Feet

This summer, what if the invitation isn't to go somewhere new, but to pay closer attention to where you already are? Discover how planting your feet, slowing down, and noticing the sacred in your neighborhood can become a simple yet meaningful practice of prayer and faithful presence.

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