Many congregations are in the waning days of their annual stewardship campaign. Are you thinking, “whew, glad that’s done until next year?” Well…not so fast!

Yet we’ve learned that conflicts can present great opportunities for building community by examining together what we value the most and clarifying our purpose and mission as a community.

Creative Darkness, closest friend, you whisper in the night;…

This blog is by guest Tyler Coles….

The communities where we live and work and go to school are constantly changing. The nation and the wider world is constantly changing.

I love tennis. I play it whenever I can (rather badly) and I am an avid fan. If there is tennis on TV, that’s what is showing at my house. I follow a number of the athletes, I’m on top of the news from the sport, I know exactly where the tour is going next, I have every tournament’s app on my…

We are living in a time of great change, where the forces of greed, selfishness, and fear have been unleashed and the future is unclear.

Innovation! Adaptation!! Experimentation!!! We live in a time of incredible change and shifting paradigms. Technology continues to zoom along at a pace that is breathtaking and society seems to be chomping at the bit for the next big thing. At the same time, some of the things we thought we could…

February. Black History Month. I celebrate Black History every day of my life so I find it odd to devote one month in the year to celebrating Blackness.

This is the season of Advent. The time of waiting and emptying and not knowing.