A creative collaboration between Trinity United Methodist Church and Sellwood Faith Community

Uvalde, Buffalo, Chattanooga, Las Vegas, Florence South Carolina, Charleston, University City, Taft, and more. In Portland this weekend there were 10 shootings with 10 people injured in less than 24 hours. ENOUGH Gun violence is a public health crisis. June 3rd is Gun...

How do you learn? If you don't know something how do you find out the information? If you aren't where you want to be in regards to speaking another language, fostering a deeper faith, or acquiring a skill how do you proceed? In the journey of planting a new church...

Back in those early days of the pandemic we were adapting and adjusting. After 2 years I'm tried of adjusting and adapting. I want routine. I want to know what to expect. I want to be good at my job again. One example of this comes from our morning worship set-up. At...

People seem so angry right now. And I'm not just talking about the news out of the supreme court. The other day I was at the mall to buy some new dress pants. A lady in the parking lot flipped me off as I was driving. I guess she thought I should have stopped for her...

This blog was originally posted on Hacking Christianity on July 23, 2015. I am sharing it again now in light of the news that Roe v Wade is probably going to be overturned by the Supreme Court. You can read about that news here. Early on in the scriptures we see the...

This season we are focusing on practices of healing. We are exploring and creating ways to tend our souls after 2 years of pandemic, wrestling with the fall out of climate change, navigating our deeply divided political life, grieving the rise of gun violence in our...

This week one of the things I get to work on is dissolving the Sellwood Faith Community Corporation. This is simply a financial hoop we have to jump through The Parish is not going anywhere, and both Trinity and SFC are strong components of this new expression. Back...

This week we get to sing some of my favorite hymns. I can remember singing these songs surrounded by people at the church where I grew up. I can picture the Garners sitting in front of us, Randy's lovely voice ringing out. I remember Easter in Spain, the same melodies...

Last week as I looked out at the gathering on Sunday morning I felt sad. There were 15 of us in the Sanctuary and it just felt like not enough. A visitor had made some cutting remarks about there being "no one" at worship. And suddenly our gathering seemed inadequate....

For Lent this year I have been wearing the same bracelet every day. It's basically like a purple shoelace with a silver tree charm in the middle. Someone gave it to me a while back and I decided to save it for the season of Lent. It's a great reminder for me, a marker...