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Welcoming the "Other": What Pastors and Congregations Can Do to Support Ecumenical Marriages

Posted on August 2, 2006 by Alban Staff

In American religious life today there is an upsurge of “church-hopping”—laity moving their membership from one denomination to another. Married couples do not always make this move together, however. A couple who began their marriage within the same denomination may…

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Answering in Unison: How Six Congregations Supported the Called

Posted on July 14, 2006 by Alban Staff

The Alban Institute has been interested for some time in the connections that exist between active participation in a congregation and what people do in the world. Specifically, we wanted to know how participation in a congregation assists people in…

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We all know pastors who are burned out from the stresses of 2020 and 2021. Maybe we are willing to say, “I am burned out” — but I wonder if it would help us to think about a congregation being burned out. A Harvard…

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