The Exceptional People Behind Their Warriors: One Counselor’s Mission to Support the Families PTSD Never Mentions
Milwaukee, WI — Everybody talks about what PTSD does to the veteran. Almost nobody talks about what it does to the person lying next to him at 3am. That’s the conversation Marcus Hart brought to this week’s episode of Transform U: Veteran Stories, sitting down with Welby O’Brien — wife of a combat veteran living […]
The Black Church Is Getting Back Into Politics. It Never Really Left.
Every few election cycles, someone in national media “discovers” that Black churches are political institutions, as if this were breaking news. It isn’t. It’s the load-bearing wall of Black civic life in this country, going back to before Reconstruction, and it’s doing exactly what it has always done this year, ahead of the November 2026 […]
The Black Church Is Getting Political Again for the Midterms. That’s Not a Compromise of Faith — It’s the Tradition.
As Black congregations mobilize voters ahead of November, the old debate resurfaces about whether the pulpit should touch politics at all — but that debate misreads the Black church’s own history, and misreads what the moment actually requires.
The Rule That Could Quietly Shut Down Seminary Education in America
A new federal “Do No Harm” earnings test could cut off Pell Grants and student loans to religion and seminary programs where half or more of graduates don’t out-earn a high school diploma holder. That standard was never built with ministry in mind.
The Reentry Program Working Better Than Government’s – And It Meets in a Sanctuary
A national network of Black churches is scaling its reentry ministry from 50 congregations to 250, betting that faith communities — not just government programs — are the missing infrastructure for people coming home from incarceration. Marcus Hart on why that bet is right.
Churches Are Becoming “Democracy Hubs.” Here’s the Question Nobody’s Asking Yet.
Faith leaders across Minnesota and beyond are turning houses of worship into “democracy hubs” ahead of the midterms. Marcus Hart on why the impulse is right and the execution needs guardrails.
The Church Was Never Supposed to Be Milwaukee’s Mental Health System. It Became One Anyway.
With Black men underserved by clinical mental health systems, Milwaukee’s churches have quietly absorbed a role no one assigned them — first responder for pain with nowhere else to go. Marcus Hart on what that role actually requires, and where faith alone runs out of road.
Churches Are More Diverse Than Ever. Pastors Are Preaching About It Less. That’s a Problem.
New Lifeway Research data shows Protestant churches growing more racially diverse while pastors grow less likely to preach on racial reconciliation. Marcus Hart argues that silence from the pulpit is its own kind of message.
Marcus Hart Opens Up About Being Pushed Out By His Own Church — New Transform U: Veteran Stories Episode
Marcus Hart opens up in a new Transform U: Veteran Stories episode about the Milwaukee church that pushed him out during his darkest season, and how he found his way back to a steadier faith.
Democracy Hubs: Should Churches Be in the Voter Turnout Business?
A growing interfaith movement wants churches, mosques, and synagogues to serve as democracy hubs ahead of the midterms. Marcus Hart on where that idea is faithful civic duty – and where it risks becoming exactly the partisan capture faith communities should resist.