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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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What is a Parish?
Pearla Lagrosa Pearla Lagrosa

What is a Parish?

A parish isn’t just a place, it’s the relationship between people and their neighborhood, where faith is practiced together in everyday life. Find out what makes a parish more than a building, and how you can notice and join the shared life already unfolding around you.

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