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Rule of Life
About a year ago I began using a liturgical planner. As I began using it the first task was to create…
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Vulnerability
At SFC we do discussion based worship. We eat, we share, we talk, and we wrestle with big themes. This…
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Investing in people
SFC is in a place where we no longer are worried about survival. We have a strong core group of…
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Standing Together
One of the best things about this faith community is the way we support one another. We do that through…
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Changing Habits
When I was serving my last church community I would go out to breakfast every Thursday to write my sermon.…
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Sacred Signs
I grew up in a progressive, social justice oriented church. My Sunday School classrooms had Corita Kent prints on the…
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God on the Edges
I’m not one of those folks that thinks the church is dying. I think the church is changing, but that…
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Low Sunday
This past week we had a low Sunday, mostly because the Sellwood Bridge and many neighborhood roads was closed all…
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Room to Dream
It is amazing how much more creative and imaginative I feel now that my anxiety is under control and I’m…
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Slowing Down
This fall we started with a bang. We augmented our normal schedule with two book groups, youth group, worship, and…