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The Congregational Library and Archives in Boston has the exciting task of preserving – and helping others to preserve – the history of some of the earliest communities of faith in America.  They rescue documents from attics and basements, digitize them, and make the... Read More →

As disasters strike – all too often, it seems – we often see churches, synagogues and mosques in the news. They may be shelters or food distribution centers or coordinators of volunteers or places to comfort and grieve. As the most ubiquitous form of voluntary organization in the... Read More →

Though most conservative Christian organizations, denominations, and congregations have abandoned explicitly homophobic rhetoric in their arguments against gay rights in their effort to craft a politically viable position, others have increased the volume (and, through social... Read More →

This is a sentence a tooltip. How does a congregation make time and space for the disabilities and differences of those who constitute it?  How does it claim those differences as vital to its forms of knowing and loving God rather than disruptive to its unity? Such questions... Read More →