There may be times when it seems we are constantly searching for stability. However, it is often in these moments that something good can be nurtured, even when it feels impossible to recognize.

The Advent season is often a time when we use words like waiting, yearning, longing, and angst.

“Love is not something we decide to do now and then. Love is who we are! Our basic, foundational existence—created in the image of the Trinity—is love.” 

When our eyes begin to see the pain and hurt around us, it can be disorienting. Our goal in these moments is not just to mourn the confusion we feel but to take action.

The beauty of Advent lies in our ability to hold in tension the promise of what is coming into this world—the Prince of Peace—and the often harsh reality of our existing circumstances.

Many of us know what it feels like when we get through something we thought would break us or was impossible.

Advent is a reminder that goodness is coming even though it may be hard to see in the present reality. 

I have become more and more confident that the disorienting moments of our faith journey can actually be great catalysts in forming who our spiritually and our understanding of God. Because of this, I see and understand faith differently.

the only path to a new orientation is disorientation. A journey through pain—pain that comes from questioning, from new actions, and from grief.

Research over six months has shown that those who have a daily spiritual/mindful practice are less anxious and happier.

Our Advent journey will begin Sunday, December 3rd where we will light our first Advent candle. During this season we invite you to journey

“God’s justice is forgiveness.” God’s justice isn’t revenge or retribution but forgiveness.

For the next few weeks at Storied Church, we are going to approach the Lord's prayer in a new way. A way that might help us pray again.

We are teaching and offering to our children the beauty of the holy practice of communion and the radical open invitation it provides.

Hope isn’t a transcendental, out-of-this-world word. It is tangible. One-way hope is tangible is through the word agency.

I firmly believe as much as possible that children belong in worship spaces and be integral to the worship life of the community..

The Shepherds knowing that though the story has only just begun this news means God is closer than ever and peace is among them.

The heartbroken and the mourners will be the ones to rebuild, restore, and renew what was once devastated.

All Saints is a reminder that the meal for which we taste of God’s goodness is the meal that the Saints who have gone before us feast.

Maybe the short answers people tend to give are easier than confronting the person we see in the mirror and the biases we may have within.