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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...
Beloved Community,
Ash Wednesday: Call a Solemn Assembly
February 12th, 2026
Ash Wednesday“Call a solemn assembly…”Joel 2:15 When Joel issued the call for a “solemn assembly”, he did not issue that call to a bunch of Baptists! ...
Beloved Community,
Rooted or Uprooted
February 5th, 2026
This week I’ll be heading to Montreat, NC for Oasis 2026, a spiritual retreat for those who work with children, youth, college, and young adults. We’ll gath...