Press

Don’t just take our word for it! Over the years, we’ve received a lot of positive press about the work we’re doing and that we’re inviting you into! Check it out!

• Melissa Florer-Bixler: What does it mean to forgive our debtors?—Faith and Leadership, March 2021
• ‘Neighbors caring about our neighbors’: Mutual aid groups rise up in South Jersey—WHYY, February 2021
• The Loneliest Holy Week Ever—The New Yorker, April 2020
• Giving Up Carbon for Lent—The New Yorker, March 2020
• Church members find relief and community by paying off each others’ debts—WBUR, November 2019
• Her church asked her to pay someone else’s debt. She was in.—Marketplace, November 2019
• Love thy neighbor, and pay off their debts, too—Marketplace, November 2019
• My church came together to pay each member’s debt—Sojourners, July 2019
• #FreeBlackMamas works to bail black mothers out of jail in time for Mother’s Day—NBC News, May 2019
• Free black mamas group pays bail and reunites black women with their families for mother’s day—People Magazine, May 2019
• God, guns, and country: the Evangelicals fight over firearms—New Yorker, April 2019
• These Philadelphians are raising money to bail out inmates (and they’re throwing a party to do it)—Philadelphia Magazine, November 2017
• Kensington: Pastor Joshua Grace’s impact goes beyond church walls—September 2017
• Faith and art come together at Circle of Hope gallery—The Spirit of the Riverwards, February 2017
• Philly should prioritize fair neighborhood development, more green space—WHYY, July 2015
• Circle the wagons at ‘hipster church’—April 2014
• The newest offshoot of the Circle of Hope Church makes a foray into the heart of North Philadelphia—City Paper, October 2017
• Losing our religion—South Jersey Magazine, August 2013
• Message of hope for old Pennsauken firehouse—Courier Post, May 2011