Browse our compilation of curated resources featuring videos, webinars, and conversational guides spanning a variety of topics, from the science of spirituality to healing racial wounds and breaking generational barriers.

FINANCIAL LITERACY, EMPOWERMENT, AND COMMUNITY

How to Open a Roth IRA: A Roth IRA can help you earn tax-free growth on your investments.

How to Lead Online Worship Without Losing Your Soul-Or Body: 8 tips for stewarding church technology in a time of social distancing.

A North Carolina Nonprofit Helps Churches Convert Property from Liabilities into Assets: Leaders of a community development corporation believe that even struggling congregations can survive and thrive if members take stock of their assets and put them to use as resources for their communities.

John McKnight: Low-Income Communities Are Not Needy – They Have Assets: People who want to help low-income communities should see them as “half-full glasses,” places with strengths and capacities that can be built upon, says the codeveloper of the asset-based community development strategy.

SUSTAINABILITY

A Network of Black Farmers and Black Churches Delivers Fresh Food from Soil to Sanctuary: The Black Church Food Security Network promotes long-term economic empowerment among black farmers and congregations while addressing issues of health, food accessibility, and self-determination.

A Nonprofit Works to “Green” the Black Church: “Green the Church” encourages African American congregations to commit to an environmental theology that promotes sustainable practices and helps build economic and political change.

CREATING SAFE SPACES

Alternatives to Calling the Police: Unpack the reasons why a congregation might call the police and highlight alternatives that are less harmful to people of color.

Opioid Epidemic Practical Toolkit: Helping Faith and Community Leaders Bring

Hope and Healing to Our Communities: This 24-page toolkit from the Department of Health offers opioid-awareness resources for faith-based organizations.

Welcoming All Abilities
Hospitality and inclusion for members with developmental disabilities.

MENTAL HEALTH

Mental Health & The Church
Learn about and promote a more holistic understanding of mental illness. Use the provided material within small groups to provide for personal and ministry development.

Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective
Utilize online training highlighting subjects such as healing and justice, masculinity, and restorative justice, toolkits, Covid-19 resources, and online events such as Heart Space and Decompress.

Mental Health Tips for African Americans to Heal after Collectively Witnessing an Injustice
This video was created as a Covid-19 resource to provide mental health ideas and resources to cope with racial trauma and social distancing.

National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
Explore free mental health courses, support programs, and resources for individuals and families, as well as education courses, peer support groups, downloadable awareness toolkits, NAMI FaithNet advisory group and worship tools, articles, and resources for African American and Latinx communities. Also find interfaith resources for congregational leaders.

Mental Health Grace Alliance
Join support groups, access affordable recovery care, find resources for family members, and other resources for those with mental illnesses. Experience a support group, with a 14-week curriculum for family members, training seminars on the clinical and biblical understanding of mental illness, and affordable access to mental health recovery care.

Cultural Somatics Institute: Racialized Trauma Course
This online course explains racialized trauma that stays in the body, especially as it relates to Black people, White people, police, and communities. Utilize the free five-session e-course for people of faith exploring the intersection of racism and trauma.

Healing the Healers
This series of short videos offers peer support for faith leaders who respond to community-level trauma such as gun violence, disaster, and suicide, offering 20-minute episodes, interviews with faith leaders, discussion questions, and reflections from scholars.

Spirituality, Neuroplasticity, and Personal Growth
YouTube lecture “Spirituality, Neuroplasticity, and Personal Growth” instructs the audience to explore relational and psychological problem-solving from the perspective of recent findings in neuroscience.

LEADERSHIP

Take a Look At Yourself: Self-in-System Sensitizers: The purpose of the Self-in-System Sensitizers is to help us become more aware of our typical patterns of organizational behavior.

Framing The Conversation: Essential Characteristics of Ecclesial Leadership: Bishop Frank Caggiano proposes “empowered humility” and “commitment to creativity in ministry” as two fundamental qualities for ecclesial leadership.

Leading Spiritual Growth
Promoting health, vitality, and lifelong faith in communities

Church Management and Administration
Manage your congregation effectively with resources on budgeting tips, software, and leadership strategies.

Better Leaders, Better Parishes
Explore the theme in the free 8-part webinar series. This series is presented by Dr. Dan Ebener, and the series content is based on his book, Pastoral Leadership: Best Practices for Church Leaders.

ReFocus Ministry
This organization helps clergy and discipleship leaders of faith communities foster intergenerational discipleship, by providing training and information for communal worship and faith formation at home. Explore their coaching and consulting for family faith formation: online webinars; book lists, blogs, links to family ministry, Facebook pages, and an Intergenerational Toolkit for practical discipleship at home.

Theology Crawl
Offers questions, guidelines, applicable scriptures, and links to resources. This online guide can be used to facilitate difficult conversations about faith and life and is best for small groups and young adults, (especially progressive or nondenominational Christians).