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"‘If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.’" Luke 6:32-33 My husband had surgery last week (everything went well…

True vs. False Gratitude Checking the morning papers or your news feed isn’t always the best way to start the day. While it is important to be engaged in the world and live our faith out as active members of society, we sometimes need to come up for air. The troubles of the world are…

What is a church anyway? (part II) Do you remember the days when kids ran around the church campus on Sunday morning? How about when the sanctuary was so full that a second service had to be started? Or when the choir lined up along the side of the chancel, bright and colorful in their…

What is a church anyway? Long before Covid, I taught an adult education class titled “What is the Church, Anyway?” I can’t remember where I came up with that title, but I do remember that I was attempting to discover the purpose of church by considering its phases through history. It turned out to be…

Dear Friends, By the time I was old enough to know who Martin Luther King Jr. was, he was widely accepted as a beloved hero, one of history’s good guys. But when I was well into adulthood, some of the elders of my church who were his contemporaries told me how he was perceived during…