April 22, 2018
Earth Day! Audio sermon to be posted soon
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The Jubilee in our Midst
April 15, 2018
Sometimes we have to hit life’s reset button, and see what emerges. When I worked in Philadelphia, my friend Andy and my email in-boxes would get out of hand; no matter how hard we tried, the unread emails would pile up. Eventually we would get to a point where we would declare, what […]
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“That we may live together”
April 8, 2018
When I was in Seminary I wanted to, in the words of my mentor, Pastor Beth, “Ride all the Rides.” I wanted to experience as much as was possible, to deeply explore the beauty and complexity, and fullness of theology and the pastoral arts. I jumped in head first. There’s training Offered in Community Organizing? […]
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Who told you?
April 1, 2018
Sarah Gray knew in her bones that there was more to the story. Her life had been full of surprising next chapters, and she hoped the same kind of breakthrough would happen again. She met her husband when she was on vacation with a friend in a Scottish Pub. She and Ross had this […]
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“If These were Silent”
March 25, 2018
Yesterday I marched in Washington D.C. for the first time. I went with folks from MPC, and young people from local Presbyterian Churches to take place in the March for our Lives. This event came into existence as a response to the mass shooting at Parkland Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Ash […]
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Lenten Lies I’ve Loved
March 18, 2018
Katie Thomison
The last time I was here (yes, I’ve actually been here before!), I was introducing a bunch of visiting youth stating at The Center, Baltimore to the staff for a summer VBS camp. Your church had helped plan that week of summer camp and graciously hosted a dinner and informational session […]
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A Transformed Community
March 11, 2018
My second year of Seminary, I was invited to serve as the Co-Moderator of our campus’ LGBTQ organization, known as BGLASS. It was a turbulent time on campus, with ordination and marriage equality being debated and instituted in the Church, and I was excited to be a part of a […]
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Our Own Vines, and Fig Trees
March 4, 2018
When I move to a new city, there are a few spots I need to scope out to feel at home. For me, to be settled, to be nested, I need to know where my public Library is. It doesn’t have to be fancy, but it does need to have places to read, write, and […]
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Explaining away Disparities: Our Racial Autobiographies
February 25, 2018
When I was in the first grade, my class was learning about the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, and how he wanted children of all races to be able to play together. I had a classmate who was Black, whose family had just moved to our Suburb, outside Portland. She and I were […]
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Big Elephants, Tiny Riders, & a few Reels: Some Tools for Facing White Supremacy
February 18, 2018
It was my sophomore year of college in my intro to Psychology class that I first took the Implicit Association Test, which measures unconscious bias. Have you heard of this assessment? You are shown a series of faces. Half of the people you see are people of color, the other half are White Americans of […]
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