Grace and Mercy
- Nashville mother forgives the man who killed her only sonInvestigateTV
- Parents who faced their daughter's killer: restorative justice 'gave us a voice'Vatican News
- Men inside a Vermont prison stitch their stories into a shared quiltThe Marshall Project
- Eighteen women earn Northwestern degrees through prison education programThe Daily Northwestern
- Nonprofit that plants churches inside prisons wins first Dove community impact awardThe Dallas Morning News
- Once helped by a reentry ministry, Indiana woman now volunteers to guide others outInkFreeNews
- Running group helps people in addiction recovery rebuild their livesNBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
Business as a Ministry
- Owners sell Yankee Barn Homes to its employees to keep jobs in townValley News
- Newport Restaurant Group: 30 years employee-owned, millions built for workersThe Providence Journal
- Fort Worth builder of school stadiums puts its future in employees' handsJ.P. Morgan (from Fort Worth Report)
- Senior care company sells to its workers in rare move for the industryMcKnight's Senior Living
- Wisconsin print shop raises $128,000 for tornado victims with 'Menasha Strong' shirtsGreen Bay Press-Gazette
Signs and Wonders
- Louisiana's first curative gene therapy frees young man from sickle cell painAmerican Hospital Association
- After 30 years of research, FDA approves first drug for deadly Alexander diseaseScienceDaily (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison)
- Missing hiker, 72, found alive days after a fall in a California forestUSA Today
- She saw a police officer's story on the news. Then she gave him a kidneyNBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
- USC scientists find a way to grow a renewable supply of cancer-fighting cellsScienceDaily (Keck School of Medicine of USC)
- Good Samaritan and NYPD officers reunite after pulling driver from fiery crashCBS New York
Faith at Work
- Austin church's $75,000 gift erases $14 million in medical debt for 10,865 peopleAustin American-Statesman
- Chapel Hill church sets out to cancel medical debt across three countiesThe Daily Tar Heel
- Revival at Appalachian State: 100 baptized in truck beds at campus worship rallyDecision Magazine (Billy Graham Evangelistic Assn.)
- Small-town Mississippi church sees 59 baptized as revival spreads to studentsThe Baptist Paper
- Ohio church asks city schools one question: 'What do you need?'Richland Source
- Tallahassee church builds homes and eyes commercial sites to reshape FrenchtownTallahassee Democrat
- Latter-day Saints give $3 million to Opal Lee's Juneteenth museum, calling it an 'act of healing'Deseret News
Good Neighbors
- Loyola opens community center to serve Baltimore's York Road neighborhoodsLoyola University Maryland
- Baltimore honors 10 grassroots changemakers, each directing $5,000 to a causeBaltimore Fishbowl
- 500 voices, one church: Baltimore records its gospel legacy before it fadesWord In Black
- Free pop-up clinic in Largo gives medical, dental and vision care to MarylandersWAMU
- Missing University of Maryland student found alive after campus-wide searchWJLA
- Volunteer fireboat crew finds kayakers missing 30 hours on the PotomacSouthern Maryland News
- Friends' CPR on a California beach saved a Maryland native's lifeWMAR 2 News Baltimore
- Long awaited African American Heritage Center opens in FrederickThe Frederick News-Post
- Waldorf church's food pantry and 24-hour community fridge get a boostThe BayNet
World
- Ebola vaccine trials give 'reason for hope' in Congo's worst outbreakRFI
- As violence grows in Nigeria, Christian and Muslim leaders join forcesThe Banner (Religion News Service)
- Abducted by Uganda's LRA as a teen, he now turns to faith to healAnabaptist World (Religion News Service)
- Twice a refugee, an Eritrean father rebuilds his life with a shared cafe in EthiopiaNorwegian Refugee Council
- Thirteen Christians freed in India after four months in prison over worship gatheringOpen Doors UK & Ireland
- Nigerian mother acquitted of blasphemy receives religious freedom awardADF International
- Remote northwest Haiti gets its own education office, halving travel for familiesThe Haitian Times