Beloved Community,
Curiosity as the Starting Point
September 25th, 2025
This past Tuesday I was the guest speaker at the Baptist Student Union (BSU) on the Wake Forest University campus. I led this diverse group of undergraduate and...
Beloved Community,
Baptists to Call “Ours”
July 3rd, 2025
Dear Beloved Community, June is Baptist season around these parts. A number of global Baptist denominations gather in these early summer days each year for the ...
Beloved Community,
Risen and Power-Full Indeed!
April 24th, 2025
Dear Beloved Community, With each passing year of our living, one truth never fades – God is always, always at work making all things new, surprising us again...
Beloved Community,
Signs of Life (Together)
September 12th, 2024
Dear Beloved Community, Around the staff meeting table yesterday, we marveled at how many of you came, excited, to our kickoff gathering at 9:00am on Sunday as ...
Beloved Community,
The Little Patch of Land We Tend
August 1st, 2024
Dear Beloved Community, In his recent Christian Century article called “What’s special about a church building?,” Brian Bantum writes this:...
News,
Holy Gatherings
July 11th, 2024
Hello First on Fifth Friends! I recently came across two headlines that gave me pause: “Is this the end of the dining room as we know it?” and “The Death...