Donna Frischknecht Jackson

A growing Epiphany worship practice is to hand out to church members paper stars, each with a single guiding word for the coming year.

A very small Tennessee congregation followed the promptings of the Holy Spirit and built up a homeless ministry, engaging the whole community.

Some pastors of mostly white congregations are struggling to engage their members in the work of racial justice.

Stuffed animals in church pews are available to provide comfort to worshipers and are free for people to take home.

A new pastor visited each member of his church and gave them a framed verse epitomizing their Matthew 25 call to serve their community.

Creating a Lenten “wreath” adapts the practice of lighting an Advent wreath and deepen one’s journey to the Good Friday cross.

A North Carolina Presbyterian congregation gives step-by-step advice to set up a welcoming prayer room.

The Rev. Carol Holbrook Prickett wrote “A Legacy of Faith: Reformation Lessons and Carols” to take people on “a journey through our own Reformed heritage.”

When a wayward hen wandered into Sashabaw Presbyterian’s churchyard, she soon found a warm welcome and quickly became the church’s best community connector.

It was New Year’s Day 1773. The faithful in the English town of Olney, though, were not thinking about old acquaintances being forgotten. (It would be another 15 years before Robert Burns would write his poem that would forever become synonymous with New Year’s Eve revelry.) They were thinking about grace and all its amazingness.