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Splitsville

Torn paper heart Last week it was announced that a new denomination, the Global Methodist Church or GM Church, would be launching on May 1st. This new denomination is a conservative offshoot of the United Methodist Church. This has been a long time coming. It feels...

Give Up

Things are hard. The world is at war. The pandemic is still impacting us all. Our country is so divided. A man killed his three daughters at a church. The data out of the school district shows we are failing our black boys. People on twitter are calling me spineless...

Anxious Dreaming

My dreams lately have all been about not measuring up, of being lost, or of having to pack and move. This is the season of clergy appointments and church transitions in the United Methodist world. While I have no intentions of moving this year and have made that clear...

Organizing Together

This fall our Parish began work with the Southeast Organizing Cohort. Our leadership has been through trainings like this several times now, most recently with the Parish Collective cultural lab program in late 2019. Our hope in joining this time was to have a chance...

State of the Parish

Every year I like to write about how things are going with the Parish.  Right now, nearly 2 years in to the pandemic, I would say we are holding steady.  We have hybrid worship in place and are continuing to refine and improve that practice. Attendance is holding...

When I Disappear

On Thursday I was working with Bill, our parish volunteer secretary/project manager/pastoral idea coordinator, to break into a locked cabinet. I wanted to get a different screw driver and told him I’d be right back. The next time Bill saw me was nearly 2 hours...