Minneapolis, MN

Facing poverty, crime, and closing businesses, Christians look to transform their corners.

How we tell the story is just as important as what we say.

A debate over “untethered empathy” underscores how departing leaders, including John Piper’s successor, approached hot-button issues like race and abuse.

She led a congregation in a denomination that doesn’t believe in women in leadership, fostered more than 1,000 children, and sang the music that God taught her to play.

After George Floyd’s death, white and Black congregations partnered to serve the city.

Human justice may achieve accountability, and perhaps even recompense, but rarely real restoration.

The spiritual care ministry finds itself responding to more situations of “civil unrest” following recent shootings and police killings.

It matters what Scripture says about police.

“Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul.” Matthew 10:28

From cleanup efforts to sermons against systemic racism, local pastors say an effective response requires they listen to the communities hurting the most.