These Holy Days
This year I’ve been trying to stop myself whenever I refer to the Friday after Thanksgiving as “Black Friday.” Sometimes it just comes out, but each time it does, I find that it catches in my throat. When the words tumble out, I pause and consider how the “biggest shopping…
Land acknowledgement
For the last several months we have included this statement at the top of our worship bulletin: We acknowledge we are gathering on land where Miami, Osage, Shawnee, and other Indigenous peoples have lived and worked and loved. We continue to work and pray for justice and conciliation. The inclusion…
Reporting from DC
These last two days I’ve been in Washington, DC with other members of the National Sanctuary Collective. This is a group of 8-10 people in sanctuary and their supporters that Edith has been communicating with regularly. The Collective shares a common strategy of being very public with their stories as…
Abstinence Pledge
Our worship series on healthy sexuality wrapped up at the end of October. If you missed any of those services, you can find the sermons posted on our website. While that series was going, the High School Sunday School class was using a companion curriculum to explore the same themes…
Thank you taxpayers
This is not satire or cynicism: Thank you taxpayers. For the last few months I’ve been watching with glee as construction crews do their thing at a heavily traveled interchange, now nearly complete. The improvement involves a new walk/run/bike access point to the Olentangy Trail, beginning on the north side…