Faith

Dec 16, 2020

Want to be connected with faith leaders in rural NC?

We are ending the year as the Rural Faith Community team so grateful for our faith leaders that we have partnered with, learned from, and who have taught us this…

Nov 24, 2020

What Your Faith Community Can Do About Digital Inclusion Today

IEI has prioritized resources, information, and funding for digital inclusion efforts in North Carolina in 2020. The rural faith team is working with congregations facing a spectrum of internet issues:…

Jul 29, 2020

MidSummer Liminality – What’s Our Job To Do?

The IEI team convened a Mid-Summer Zoom gathering of faith leaders (clergy and laity) and partners to discuss what’s going on within the network. Of course it’s hard to find…

Jun 24, 2020

The Long Haul: Rest for Rural Faith Leaders?

This is the first in a series of blogs about how rural faith leaders across North Carolina are thinking of emerging issues around the coronavirus pandemic in their community. The…

Apr 14, 2020

What does “the best” look like for faith leaders right now?

Pastors Elizabeth and Jason Villegas are some of the most innovative faith leaders I know. My favorite type of faith leaders are those that try to make the world better,…

Oct 24, 2019

Rural Faith Leaders Consider Economic Opportunity Challenges at Emerging Issues Forum

The Institute for Emerging Issues welcomed over 50 rural faith leaders to our ReCONNECT to Economic Opportunity Forum on October 15. From shout-outs on stage to our faith leader dinner…

Sep 27, 2019

A Note from Kylie Foley, IEI’s Rural Faith Communities Program Manager

I never cease learning from John Parker. From the beginning of IEI’s work with faith communities, he’s been our “consultant on the ground” in the title but so much more…

Mar 20, 2019

Members of IEI attend RAFI’s Come to the Table Conference in Charlotte

“Nothing about us without us” This was a common refrain at RAFI’s Come to the Table Conference (CTTT) in Charlotte, NC. Over 450 faith leaders, food workers, farmers and more…

Apr 22, 2018

Rural Faith Conference Wrap Up

“Being appointed to a place known only as, ‘Two miles from somewhere,’ is daunting, like being anointed as the only one in town who can pray away the haunting.” The…

Apr 22, 2018

Rural Faith Conference Wrap Up

“Being appointed to a place known only as, ‘Two miles from somewhere,’ is daunting, like being anointed as the only one in town who can pray away the haunting.” The…