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Celebrating Mothers

Mother’s Day is a day that can bring both celebration of fulfilled longings, as well as grieving for longings that remain.  It can be difficult to talk about motherhood without falling into stereotypes or norms that can exclude so many, but I think it’s safe to connect the idea of nurturance and care to the […]

A Hunger for "Heaven"…

Every once in a while I hear a song that goes beyond “ear worm” and becomes something almost permanent in my brain. It gets stuck in there, lodged in a deeper place than the place that just holds content (like lyrics) – a place that retains things because they are the carriers of a deeper […]

"Happy Easter"…

Hello People of The Table. In the last couple of days I have had a number of people wish me “Happy Easter”. Not folks I know, just people I’ve interacted with in the process of going about my business day by day. It seems that Easter still has some cultural cache, even if it is […]

Choices From The Margins

In the grand scheme of the church year, we are entering into the week that, in many ways, marks the pinnacle of Christian belief and worship. The story of the week before Christ’s death is a fast paced drama in which the central figure of Christ is borne inexorably toward the ultimate donation of self […]

The Darkness of Fear…

It occurs to me that many of us live our lives with a great deal of fear. Fear certainly pervades the social and political discourses of our times, and manages to seep into every sector of our lives from how we spend our money, to how we operate in relationships and even how we worship. […]

Celebrate… then into the wilderness…

Hello folks. Since you are on this email list, I’m assuming that you saw our “urgent” financial email. A situation like that one is cause for some concern, and in this case also cause for some celebration. The community responded in a variety of ways. The Leadership Team was supportive, Brent (and maybe others, but […]

Our financial need right now…

Hello folks. After my “joke” on Sunday about us using our email list to solicit funds, this feels a bit like the least attractive sort of irony. That said, there doesn’t seem to be a lot of effective communication options for the issue at hand, so (with the Leadership Team’s approval), I want to let […]

More new photos!

New photos!

Taken by Tracy A. Wieler

Through the storms…

The “storms of life” often come unannounced, bringing with them the potential to utterly destroy those that are in it’s path, often replacing hope with despair in their aftermath. Our foundational or core beliefs as a disciple of Jesus sustain us through these storms. This week I’d like to share with you from Scripture, a […]