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October 2025: Room for Everyone at the Table
October 6th, 2025
This Sunday, October 5, our congregation will gather for one of my favorite days in the life of the church - World Communion Sunday. Born out of a desire for un...
September 2025: Why We Celebrate Anniversaries
September 4th, 2025
Dear Beloved Community, Fifteen years ago this very night, Josh and I gathered with our nearest and dearest to commit our lives to each other. We made all th...
100 on Fifth: Home in the Heart of the City
September 2nd, 2025
100 years ago, the people called First Baptist Church planted their new home at 501 West Fifth Street. After two other locations they called home, the third tim...
August 2025: Can You Hear the Bell?
August 5th, 2025
I recently started watching Stanley Tucci’s new series Tucci in Italy on Disney+. I love how he highlights all the various traditions throughout Italy and of ...
July 2025: Room at the Table
July 1st, 2025
There is room for us all And no gift is too small There is room at the table for everyone There's enough if we share Come on pull up a chair Ther...
June 2025: Summer Reading List 2025
May 29th, 2025
Dear Beloved Community, It’s been a beginning-of-the-summer tradition of mine to use this space in the newsletter to share some books I’ve read and loved re...