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Loss and Gain

This year has not been at all like we expected. Many of us are grieving cancelled plans, lost time with families, milestones unlike anything we’ve known. My daughter was supposed to march with her high school band at Disneyland.  I was supposed to speak at the...

Pumpkins with Justice

Every year we host an event where people share their pumpkins and we raise money for UNICEF.  A few years ago we added in an info sheet on all the ballot measures so that we could use the United Methodist Social Principles to help inform our voting. The Social...

Indigenous People’s Day

When I was in Spain during college I lived in a little town on the bay of Cadiz called El Puerto de Santa Maria.  Christopher Columbus had visited the community in 1480 and his pilot, Juan de la Cosa spent time in the town and drew his famous world map there in 1500....

Don’t Think Like Me

My understanding of my job as a pastor is to invite people more deeply into a life of faith. My job is to empower people to serve, witness, give, and engage.  My job is to open new doors of learning, to surround people with care, and to create spaces for us all to...