
Summer Reading List 2026
Dear Beloved Community, It has become a bit of an annual tradition of mine to greet the summer with a post to you recounting some books I’ve read and love. Pe...

Our Church House
Nearly 100 years ago, the people who formed First Baptist Church moved into their third church house, the space that would become the home for her ministries an...

Sabbath Sojourn
Caught in the full and boisterous stretch of weeks that included our church's first time at the Pride Festival, Abigail Cook's final Sunday on our staff, the an...

Giving Thanks for Abigail Cook
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...


