The Serious Business of Blessings
The Bible is filled with blessings. You have probably heard one of the most familiar: “The Lord bless you and keep you, the Lord make his face to shine upon y...
2023 Year in Review
On this final day of 2023, I find myself awash in reflections and gratitude from the year we've shared together. For what a season it’s been, our joy made ful...
Art Ministry: Pointing Us to God
One of the most challenging aspects of any ministry in the church is to keep perspective. Without constant vigilance the ministry itself can often become the fo...
How to Read the Bible, Let’s Go!
I grew up in a world where what the Bible said meant everything. Our approach to reading the Bible was mostly literal. I say “mostly” because we w...
A Singing People
What a year this has been celebrating the 100th anniversary of our church home on Fifth Street! It is difficult to imagine the variety and sheer number of event...
Church Happens with You
Dear Beloved Community, It’s not quite time for our annual roundup of the year in review – churches like ours have a lot of life to live together in Decembe...
A Banner Celebration!
Dear Beloved Community, The next time you come to the church house, swing by the front of the building – new 100th anniversary front column banners are up! Th...
Promotion Sunday
Each year, Promotion Sunday marks an exciting time in the life of our church family — a time when our children and youth officially “move up” to their nex...
Reflections on the Green Season
In these waning days of summer we find ourselves right in the middle of that long season of the liturgical year known as Ordinary Time. No major feast days like...
Sacramental Thresholds
Do you remember your graduations? Your threshold moments? Your times of transition? Closing one chapter and beginning a new one? That weird liminal space in bet...
Extraordinary Time
Dear Beloved Community, After Pentecost Sunday we entered that long season of the church year known as “Ordinary Time”....
Tender Care
December's whirlwind of presents and parties and performances and places to go are always peppered with complexity. You know them well, I'm sure. "Oh what fun t...
The Beauty of Music-Making
I came of age as a singer under the direction of musicians who were themselves students and supporters of the famed conductor, Robert Shaw. ...
The Connective Tissue of Blessing
Last summer while Josh and I were in Spain en route to our Camino de Santiago starting point, we were stuck in the middle of a long day of travel in our longest...