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When a Forest Comes Home, a Collective Win for Minnesota and the Future

When a Forest Comes Home, a Collective Win for Minnesota and the Future

While much of the world's attention has focused on Minneapolis as a city seeking healing from deep division, another story has been quietly unfolding just a few hours north. This spring, Minnesota approved the return of 3,400 acres of forest. But this is not simply a land transfer. It is a commitment to work together.  The  Fond du Lac Band  regains stewardship of ancestral forest, while the  University of Minnesota  continues in partnership,...

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Being Minneapolis: When a City Becomes a System of Care

Being Minneapolis: When a City Becomes a System of Care

How neighbors are transforming grief, fear, and injustice into courage, connection, and compassionate action—and inviting the world to learn alongside them. “We’ve been waiting for you for a long time.” That is how Matthew Cobb describes the welcome awaiting those who come to Minneapolis this August. It is not an invitation to visit the city as a spectator. It is an invitation to arrive with humility—to walk through places marked by grief, witness the work of healing, listen to those who have...

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“Thank You for Saving My Life”: A Community’s Compassion and One Chaplain’s Choice to Keep Believing

“Thank You for Saving My Life”: A Community’s Compassion and One Chaplain’s Choice to Keep Believing

When Ayman Soliman was taken into immigration detention, the people of Cincinnati refused to let him disappear. Their response shows how a community can become a system of care—and how compassion becomes visible, connected and consequential. On July 9, 2025, Ayman Soliman arrived at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Blue Ash, Ohio, for what he expected to be a routine appointment. Instead, he was taken into custody. Soliman, an Egyptian-born asylum seeker who...

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