Rural Faith Communities

Jul 17, 2018

First in Future: Executive Director of the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation Mo Green

Summary: This week’s First in Future guest was a New York born, Georgia raised and Duke educated law clerk, and former school superintendent who’s now the head of North Carolina’s largest… 

Jun 12, 2018

First in Future: President and CEO of Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Elizabeth Brazas

Summary:  Here is a fact, North Carolina citizens are getting older. Currently, there are about 1.6 million citizens who are over 65. Over the next 20 years, one million more citizens… 

May 22, 2018

First in Future: Head of Rural Initiative for UNC School of Medicine Dr. Robert Bashford

Summary:  Seventy out of eighty rural North Carolina counties are described as “medical deserts”, meaning they have no primary care doctors. Finding solutions to rural health care is a big,… 

May 4, 2018

Spotlight: Kylie Foley, Rural Faith Communities Fellow

Bliss for Kylie Foley is listening to a three-hour podcast while driving somewhere new. These days, she’s probably on the road to a small town in North Carolina; It’s part… 

Apr 24, 2018

First in Future: Carolina Demography Founding Director Rebecca Tippett

Summary:  Sometimes we try to avoid looking forward, almost like if we ignore the pending changes, they won’t happen. The state’s population is growing and more and more of our… 

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… 

Apr 17, 2018

First in Future: North Carolina State Senators Jay Chaudhuri and Danny Britt

Summary:  A recent survey showed that only a third of millennials consider public service an appropriate career track. A group of young NC legislators want to change that. That’s why… 

Mar 28, 2018

Rural Faith Communities Play Anchoring Role

When a member of Pastor Cliff Wall’s church needed a liver transplant, the congregation didn’t just pray for him, they organized a charity supper and donated the proceeds to his… 

Mar 27, 2018

First in Future: NC Spin Host Tom Campbell

Summary:  North Carolinians are good people, strong people, people who want to do the right thing, even if it involves debate. Tom Campbell, the host of the nation’s longest running TV…