Beloved Community,
What “Clearing Out” is For
April 17th, 2025
Dear Beloved Community, This Lenten season of “clearing out” has been clarifying, hasn’t it? We’ve felt it in our church house, as the first floor has, ...
Beloved Community,
A Week Called Holy
April 10th, 2025
I doubt that those first disciples would have used the word “holy” to describe the final week of Jesus’ earthly life. In seven brief days the disciples ex...
Beloved Community,
A Season of Change
March 6th, 2025
Lent is a season of change, a season of transition. Falling during the seasonal transition from winter to spring, Lent reminds us that new life is near. How wil...
Beloved Community,
All Things New
April 6th, 2024
Dear Beloved Community, Several days have since passed, but the deep and abiding love I experienced alongside you this Holy Week and Easter will not soon abate....
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Collecting Our Tears
March 28th, 2024
In author Sarah Bessey’s new book, Field Notes for the Wilderness: Practices for an Evolving Faith, she speaks of the wilderness of lament. Far too often, she...
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...