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Beloved Community,
Holy Ambition: CBF’s General Assembly
July 1st, 2023
This week, twenty First on Fifth folks traveled to Atlanta for the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship's General Assembly, the annual gathering of more than 1000 Coo...
Beloved Community,
A Walk in Honor of Generations of Queer Folk
June 23rd, 2023
Nineteen years ago this month, I attended my first ever Pride Festival. I was living in Chicago at the time, and many of my new friends in our Master of Music p...
Beloved Community,
“PREACH!”
June 17th, 2023
Baptists have been in the news this week; perhaps you’ve heard. The Southern Baptist Convention met for their annual gathering, and beyond any other headline ...
Beloved Community,
Welcome to Summer!
June 11th, 2023
My family toasted the end of the school year and beginning of the summer with several days away camping this week. (Which is why this email is a bit delayed too...
Beloved Community,
Giving Thanks for Abigail Cook
June 1st, 2023
About this time two years ago, Kim Towles pulled me aside after worship to make sure I saw the family that was visiting and happened to sit alongside her and Ch...
Beloved Community,
A Look Back on Pentecost Sunday
May 25th, 2023
On Sunday, we’ll slip into the pews, sing the hymns of faith and tell the stories of Jesus, hear Word proclaimed and good news shared. Expected, you might say...