ARTICLE

FindCenter AddIcon

How Social Support Contributes to Psychological Health

By Kendra Cherry — 2020

It is social support that builds people up during times of stress and often gives them the strength to carry on and even thrive.

Read on www.verywellmind.com

FindCenter Post-Image

The Search for Common Ground

Howard Thurman writes about building community. He calls us at once to affirm our own identity, but also to look beyond that identity to that which we have in common with all of life.

Book
Howard Thurman
1986
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image
00:36

Debbie Ford on the Collective

interviews from the documentary Dance of Liberation

Video
Debbie Ford
2015
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image
22:26

Body Practices in Community Bonds

Don Hanlon Johnson elucidates the role of body practices in cultivating the bonds of various kinds of community.

Video
Don Hanlon Johnson
2021
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image
09:41

Being an Abandoned Child | Brendan Maguire | TEDxNSCCWaterfront

Brendan’s community became his home when he moved from house to house after his parents left him with his three brothers and a sister when he was 4 at a shopping mall. They never came back.

Video
2016
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

The Pentecost Paradigm: Ten Strategies for Becoming a Multiracial Congregation

How do churches build immunity from racial and ethnic tensions that threaten to divide rather than unite congregations? Jacqui Lewis and John Janka believe that the answer lies in the development of multiracial, multicultural communities of faith.

Book
Jacqui Lewis, John Janka
2018
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

The Power of Stories: A Guide for Leading Multi-Racial and Multi-Cultural Congregations

Most congregational leaders find it difficult to resist the dominant cultural expectation that different cultural and ethnic groups should stick to themselves -- especially when it comes to church.

Book
Jacqui Lewis
2008
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image
10:55

Luvvie Ajayi Jones: Get Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable

Luvvie Ajayi Jones isn’t afraid to speak her mind or to be the one dissenting voice in a crowd, and neither should you. “Your silence serves no one,” says the writer, activist and self-proclaimed professional troublemaker.

Video
2018
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

The Compassion Project: A Case for Hope and Humankindness from the Town that Beat Loneliness

Frome in Somerset, UK, has seen a dramatic fall in emergency hospital admissions since it began a collective project to combat isolation.

Book
Julian Abel, Lindsay Clarke
2020
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

The Antidote

Made in response to the times we are living in, THE ANTIDOTE is a feature documentary that weaves together stories of kindness, decency, and the power of community in America. It's about ...

Movie
2020
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Ethics

From one of the most important theologians of the twentieth century, Ethics is the seminal reinterpretation of the role of Christianity in the modern, secularized world. The Christian does not live in a vacuum, says the author, but in a world of government, politics, labor, and marriage.

Book
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
1995
FindCenter AddIcon

EXPLORE TOPIC

Offering Support to Others