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If Not Us, Who?

As a full disclosure, this is a long blog and it talks about both gun violence and white supremacy. It has been a heavy few weeks as more lives have been lost to gun violence. Our own denomination calls us to end gun violence. The United Methodist Church urges...

Chaos and Calm

We are on the final week of our summer ministry experiment, Steele Street School. It has been amazing.  We’ve served 25 different children thanks to 16 church volunteers and 45 youth from LAST (Learning and Serving Together, a service-learning program for youth...

Love Matters

This week one of our leaders shared her story of claiming her identity. I asked her if we could share it here because for me her words are so powerful and her experience of the church in the midst of the journey is exactly what I believe Jesus would want for every...

Popping the Bubbles

We tend to create lives full of people who think like us, look like us, come from a similar culture or background. And yet I  believe that God is only fully known through the vast diversity of God’s most amazing creation, people. Part of what God calls us to do...

Transformation

In the past 6 years, I’ve laughed and cried a lot at the SFC table.  This Sunday I did a healthy deal of both as members of our community shared the journey they have been on to truly love and celebrate who God made them to be.  It got me thinking about the slow...

What Are We About

Every week I lead a bible study. We discuss the scripture that will feature in the sermon at Trinity.  I started the practice of having a bible study on the sermon scripture on the recommendation of preaching professor.  It is an amazing gift to hear the thoughts and...