In support of our denomination's 1001 New Worshiping Communities movement, for the last two years I've helped interview candidates for 1001 apprenticeships. These experiences occur in different contex...  Read More

Throughout April, we're hosting a Haiku Charity Contest -- tapping into this simple structure of language to express the delight, challenge, humor and call of creation care and faith. Originated in J...  Read More

This will likely be our last shared sunrise service under the arms of the giant oak in St. Cloud. The congregation of St. Cloud Pres has received an offer on the property and, if the way be clear, wil...  Read More

This week we've experimented with prayers at the Twilight Hour -- Vespers (Latin for "evening") -- and I've tried intentionally to watch for the changing light. To the point of setting an alarm that s...  Read More

I snapped this photo three years ago, sitting at a breakfast booth in downtown Atlanta on the morning of our niece's wedding.This image flashes across layers of my mind, with close-up color and distan...  Read More

[Jesus] also said, "The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground, and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how. The earth pr...  Read More

A vintage globe that prominently features the Soviet Union ... an award-winning book I now own on Kindle ... These are a couple items you'll find on the table this Sunday 2/28 at Hope's first, ever-so...  Read More

I've never considered myself a morning person. And though I long-ago considered myself a night person, the first two weeks of Hope's experiment with Praying the Hours are the two forms that most chall...  Read More