Staff members recommend these titles for your summer reading list. Spiritual growth Freeing Jesus: Rediscovering Jesus as Friend, Teacher, Savior, Lord, Way and Presence by Diana Butler Bass. A historical and theological look at how Christians...
Scripture: Luke 10:25-37 In 2019 I had the privilege of traveling to the Holy Land with an amazing group of clergy and educators from Greensboro. Many participate in the Greensboro Faith Leaders Council, whose mission is to build an interracial and interfaith...
When I lived in Atlanta during seminary, my congressperson was recently deceased civil rights hero John Lewis. The story of Lewis’s life is a story of courage and fortitude in the face of ongoing systemic oppression. If you don’t know much about him, I encourage you...
The debate seems endless, and is resurrected every time Christians struggle with a controversial ethical or social issue having to do with justice. Recent attempts by Christians and congregations to take stands to eradicate racism and promote equity in our nation have...
Join in a 30-Day Journey As a Matthew 25 church, we seek to foster a world grounded in the Christian values of love, acceptance, inclusion, and equity for all people. To create that kind of community, we need to understand and address issues of power,...
Do you have a vision of God’s peace? And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets. Zechariah 8:5 The nations shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nations shall not lift up sword...
Welcome to summer. It’s a strange summer, to be sure, the events of which have already caused us to examine more deeply the wounds and brokenness of our own communities and wider society. For me, this summer is a strange one because it’s the first summer since I was 5...
Thursday night my daughter Sydney and I attended a service of Lament and Repentance on the steps of the FPC Sanctuary. It was crafted by our Batts’ pastoral residents (Nate Sell, Alexandra Mauney, and Keith Dove) and our Director of Discipleship and Young Adult...
Today we join with people of faith and hope all over the world to raise our voices in outrage and sadness over the killing of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor. But what is so tragic and deeply troubling is the long litany of many many others who came...
I’ve been thinking a lot about Psalm 133 as my residency at First Presbyterian winds to a close. “Behold how good and pleasant it is for kindred to dwell together in unity,” the Psalm begins. Today I am thinking about the good and pleasant times that I’ve had during...
