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Beloved Community,
Love Leads to the Light
April 2nd, 2026
Maundy Thursday by Malcolm Guite Here is the source of every sacrament,The all-transforming presence of the Lord,Replenishing our every elementRemaking us in hi...
Beloved Community,
Holy Week
March 26th, 2026
We are about to enter a week that the Christian church has designated as Holy Week. That designation does not imply that other weeks are not holy.&n...
Beloved Community,
Annual Gathering Invitation
March 16th, 2026
First on Fifth is a partner church with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (CBF) and the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina (CBFNC). One of the ma...
Beloved Community,
Holy Work Continues
March 5th, 2026
“Human community is unsustainable when it’s all about me and not about we.” These were words shared by Reverend Michael Curry on April 3, 2023 at the 50th...
Beloved Community,
Noticing God in the Unexpected
February 26th, 2026
Over the past two weeks, I have been solo-parenting our fur babies while my wife, Karen, is helping her mother recover from surgery. In our normal rhythms...
Beloved Community,
Holding Space on the Journey
February 19th, 2026
And so we’ve begun. Ready or not we are on the journey to the cross. The winding road of the Lenten journey stretches out ahead of us into the wilderness. Wha...