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The 2026 midterm elections marked the moment when the Democratic Party rediscovered religion and reversed the Kennedy paradigm of voter indifference to a candidate’s faith. No one contributed more than Adam Hamilton, the senator-elect from Kansas.

Hamilton, pastor of the largest United Methodist church in the country, defeated the incumbent, Roger Marshall, becom...

Editor’s Note: The following first appeared in the April-June 2026 issue of Good Faith Magazine.

Even now, with congregational life rapidly changing, food remains an essential part of the church’s culture. But back in the day, when church cooking was a competitive sport, a hierarchy existed in the church kitchen that everyone would have been foolish to ig...

The Methodist tradition offers three simple rules for the Christian life: Do no harm. Do good. Stay in love with God. Rooted in John Wesley’s General Rules and expressed in this familiar form by Bishop Rueben P. Job, they offer a compelling moral framework for the challenges facing our nation.

As the incoming Democratic majority prepares to govern in Congress, th...

Our lives consist of stories. Stories of the past are those our ancestors passed down to us, as well as the ones they left unspoken. Stories of the present are the ones we are crafting today. Stories of the future, whether of hope or dread, inform our choices.

As Leslie Marmon Silko says in her poem “Ceremony,” stories “aren’t just entertainment. Don’t be fooled. They’...

From All Saints’ Day to Samhain, from Día de los Muertos to the upcoming holiday season, and from the darkening of our days to political fear, grief sits heavy on our shoulders in November. We need companions for the journey. That is precisely what we have in Jenna Duranko’s