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Beloved Community,
Bold Witness and Stories of Resurrection
March 16th, 2024
Yesterday morning, I gathered with over 150 folks for an optional workshop at the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina’s Annual Gathering. Called ...
Beloved Community,
Being Baptist
March 11th, 2024
March is a month full for us of opportunities to share fellowship, resources, vision, and encouragement with our wider Baptist communities. I want to be sure yo...
Beloved Community,
The Place Our Beloved Community is Housed
March 1st, 2024
As I was preparing my sermon on Mark 8 this past Sunday, considering Jesus’ call of discipleship – the call to take up our cross, to count the costs of fait...
Beloved Community,
Bearing the Beams of Love
February 27th, 2024
I’ve gotten into the habit of wearing a rough-hewn wooden cross every day during Lent. The cross necklace was a gift from my former church, Highland Baptis...
Beloved Community,
Facing Our Finitude
February 16th, 2024
I admit, I had to laugh. It’s precisely not the moment to laugh, this somber ritual in worship where the ministers smudge ashes on the brows of their congr...
Beloved Community,
Connections and Calling
February 9th, 2024
Dear Beloved Community, I write to you from a cool morning in the mountains of western North Carolina, where I have joined nearly 130 other ministers (including...