In the farming community of Dirt Town Valley, family friends grapple with a difficult truth: One ancestor was enslaved by another.

After hospitals closed in rural Tennessee, church volunteers stepped in to provide basic care, cut hair, and pull teeth.

Now at a new location, the rural Texas church continues on in memory of the 26 members killed, including the pastor’s teenage daughter.

The local church is small and placed for a reason.

The Christian call to hard friendship in a national emergency.

Congregations in Noel and Neosho, Missouri—one diverse and one mostly white—grapple with the strain of the pandemic.

Leaving the limelight didn’t heal my pride; it only disguised it.

Rural ministry is experiencing a resurgence in the US even as economic and demographic numbers continue their decline.

A writer and a scholar attempt sympathetic portrayals of the president’s rural supporters, but their sympathy only extends so far.

A Texas Baptist pastor on the risk and resilience of America’s smallest congregations.