I’ve been talking with some dear friends of mine about Lent these past few weeks. What we plan on doing for it, how we’re leading our churches, whether we used [...]

Lent is coming up fast this year. It sort of feels like someone sped up the clock on 2023. Does anyone else feel this way? The season of Lent comes [...]

Today, just before I sat down to write a Pastor’s Desk, I read a bit of the news. A dangerous task, sometimes. Today, I read about homelessness in our beloved [...]

The prophet Joel is not the most uplifting book of the Bible. It focuses on the ecological disaster facing Israel—a locust horde had devastated the land. In an agrarian and [...]

June is Pride Month. It is a month where we honor the resilience of the LGBTQIA+ community and celebrate their unique reflection of God’s image in the world. It is [...]

Today is May 24th, celebrated as Aldersgate Day in Methodist and various other Wesleyan traditions. Today we commemorate the experience of one of our tradition’s founders, John Wesley, which he [...]

As members of The United Methodist Church, we stand in a long tradition that believes and confesses that the consistent witness of Scripture and God’s people is that God is [...]

As February begins, we enter Black History Month. We are also in the week of the Lunar New Year, celebrated in many different expressions by diverse East Asian cultures.  

This [...]

I read once about the Prisoners of War during WWII, Vietnam, and Korean Wars. When they asked the survivors about those who died, what they discovered is that those who [...]