I join with millions of people around the world pleading with America’s government to cease financial and military support for the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. Further, I join with a global community in calling for an immediate ceasefire and an end to this war. All lives matter!

Too often a legacy church survives, or not, because of choices made about the church building. Fortunately, my 150-year-old congregation transformed the overwhelming burden of supporting our legacy church building before it was too late, but not without significant conflict and risk. Here's what we've learned.

Lately I’ve been thinking that I wish I had a big picture view of church life in North America in the fall of 2023. Then I realized having a big picture view is probably a pipe dream. Part of life in the church in 2023 is just who’s here and who isn’t.

When I see an apron, I think of service. I think of hospitality. I want my apron to remind me that to follow the lowly Galilean, I'm called to a life of service and hospitality, which embraces the personal and works to strip away anything disingenuous.

When Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote "Why We Can't Wait," he was correct. Day after day, our voices and actions are called upon to labor for justice. Yet burnout is counterproductive to our advocacy for the least of God's children, which may be why Jesus told his followers, and us, not to worry about tomorrow.