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A Guide for Employers: What to Do if Immigration Comes to Your Workplace

Jan 15, 2025
This guide, developed in collaboration between the National Immigrant Law Center (NILC) and the National Employment Law Project (NELP), provides practical advice for addressing immigration-related actions in the workplace. It is available in multiple languages, including Chinese, Korean, Spanish, and Thai.

A Guide for Employers: What to Do if Immigration Comes to Your Workplace

by Brian Frederick-Gray

This guide, developed in collaboration between the National Immigrant Law Center (NILC) and the National Employment Law Project (NELP), provides practical advice for addressing immigration-related actions in the workplace. It is available in multiple languages, including Chinese, Korean, Spanish, and Thai.

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Clergy Renewal Grant Programs from the Lilly Endowment

Jan 3, 2025
illy Endowment Clergy Renewal Programs at Christian Theological Seminary seek to strengthen Christian congregations through renewal and reflection. Two programs–one national and the other aimed at Indiana congregations–provide opportunities for pastors to step away from the persistent obligations of daily ministry and engage in a period of renewal and reflection. Renewal periods are not vacations but times for intentional exploration and reflection, for drinking again from God’s life-giving waters, for regaining enthusiasm and creativity for ministry.

Clergy Renewal Grant Programs from the Lilly Endowment

by Brian Frederick-Gray

A mesmerizing view from beneath a tall tree with a lush green canopy.

Lilly Endowment Clergy Renewal Programs at Christian Theological Seminary seek to strengthen Christian congregations through renewal and reflection. Two programs–one national and the other aimed at Indiana congregations–provide opportunities for pastors to step away from the persistent obligations of daily ministry and engage in a period of renewal and reflection. Renewal periods are not vacations but times for intentional exploration and reflection, for drinking again from God’s life-giving waters, for regaining enthusiasm and creativity for ministry.

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Talking to Kids — The Poor People’s Campaign

Sep 3, 2024
Families and faith leaders are invited to look through this menu of starting points around the model of the PPC Jubilee Principles. Use this tool to intergenerationally engage your younger people in this social justice movement. 

Talking to Kids — The Poor People’s Campaign

by Brian Frederick-Gray

Families and faith leaders are invited to look through this menu of starting points around the model of the PPC Jubilee Principles. Use this tool to intergenerationally engage your younger people in this social justice movement. 

The Learning Congregation

Apr 13, 2017
This essay from the President of the Center for Congregations, discusses eight behaviors of congregations that learn well.

The Learning Congregation

by Brian Frederick-Gray

by Tim Shapiro
Center for Congregations

This essay discusses eight behaviors of congregations that learn well.

Teaching a Living Theology

Nov 15, 1996
How can faith be proclaimed in a manner that will be both satisfying and challenging? How can people come to be embodiments of faith, whose lives reflect their baptismal covenant and the good news of Jesus Christ? These complex questions defy a simple response.

Teaching a Living Theology

by Brian Frederick-Gray

by Stacy Johnson
Sojourners
November-December 1996

How can faith be proclaimed in a manner that will be both satisfying and challenging? How can people come to be embodiments of faith, whose lives reflect their baptismal covenant and the good news of Jesus Christ? These complex questions defy a simple response.

Critical theological thought, however, must be at the center of Christian education curricula. Of course, many other criteria must be considered when selecting Christian education curricula, but fostering the ability to think theologically needs to be given due regard.