What is Formation?
A few months back, the Christian Education Commission and I organized a workshop that was meant to help clarify the purposes of Christian Formation and set some goals to help move us toward our vision for Christian formation with children and youth. The congregation as a whole has been doing…
A morning with ICE
At 9:30 this morning eight of us gathered in a circle in the church foyer and joined hands. We prayed for a successful morning. We prayed for strength and courage and peace. Then seven of us headed out the door and drove to the ICE offices in LeVeque Tower downtown. …
1619 Project
This month the New York Times Magazine has been releasing a remarkable set of essays titled The 1619 Project. August marks 400 years since the first ship bearing enslaved Africans docked in Virginia colony. This is more than a recounting of history. The project, in its own words, “aims to…
“We commit…”
“We commit…” These two words could be spoken at a child dedication, a baptism, or a wedding. Each of these occasions honors a particular way of being in relationship. One in which mutual commitments offer themselves as fertile soil for growth and flourishing. These words also show up in the…
Joy and delight
In a recent interview with poet Ross Gay, Krista Tippet suggested that his work could be summarized as seeing “joy as a calling precisely in a moment like this.” The “moment like this” is our present condition of environmental degradation, blatant white nationalism, and general anxiety about the trajectory of…
