Celeste Kennel-Shank, author of What You Sow Is a Bare Seed: A Countercultural Christian Community During Five Decades of Change, is an ordained Mennonite minister living in Chicago.
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Revealing Hidden Histories
In addition to providing services to the elderly, We Are Family helps volunteers tap in to the history of African-American communities in Washington, D.C. Through casual visits as well as oral history projects, volunteers sometimes are able to uncover accounts of major events in U.S. history.
We Are Family volunteers have given Belva Simmons, 78, who lives in D.C.’s North Capitol neighborhood, a chance to tell the story of her career as a congressional staff person and her role in passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
IRS vs. Pulpit
The nonprofit status of All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena, California, is being challenged by the Internal Revenue Service because of a sermon in which parishioners were asked to imagine a
Hurricane Stan Ignites Churches
When Hurricane Stan hit the Gulf of Mexico last October, it deluged Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Honduras before losing its power.
A Place of Their Own
A Nicaraguan church helps its community build for the future.