Church done well can be a community of support and hope. Church can provide people with a sense of inclusion, identity and purpose. Church can be a place of resurrection. In my own ministry and preaching, I endeavor to remind people who they are (created, known, beloved), whose they are (God’s), and what they are […]
The Church Laboratory by Megan Snell
Church life is like a holy learning laboratory where we endeavor to understand God’s call for us. It’s a lab in which we struggle and experiment and grow to learn how to be in right relationship to ourselves, one another, God, and creation. It’s a space in which we learn how to be true to […]
I Hope You Will Know: To My Daughter, From Her Bipolar Father by David Finnegan-Hosey
Dearest Laila, Just over a month ago, you joined us here on land, and we couldn’t have been more excited and grateful to meet you. You are too young to read this right now — your curious eyes are just learning to search out the contrasts between light and dark, fascinated by the black rim […]