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A Joint Statement on the Venezuelan Takeover by the United States
The United States attack on Venezuela continues a troubling pattern of unlawful U.S. military activity, including the December 25, 2025, airstrikes in Nigeria. We condemn all forms of government aggression—whether directed at one’s own people or imposed upon another country. When fundamental rights are threatened, nonviolent, lawful, and consensus-based solutions must take precedence. The military…
Read MoreNew Senior Minister
It’s official! We are excited and pleased to announce that Rev. Laurie Anderson has accepted our call to become our Senior Minister. Rev. Anderson is an ordained DOC minister. She received her Master of Divinity from Saint Paul School of Theology and was ordained on July 17, 2016. She will be moving here from Dallas, TX where she…
Read MoreWorship Reflection Sunday, July 14, 2024
Ephesians 1:11-25 When I was a child we played a travel game we called “when I go on a trip.” It went like this, the first person would say “I am going on a trip and in my suitcase I packed an Aardvark.” The next person had to say: “I’m going on a trip and…
Read MoreWorship Reflection Sunday, June 30, 2024
The lectionary reading from 2 Corinthians is straightforward. The congregation in Macedonia has come to the aid of the congregation in Corinth and Paul is very happy about this show of support. I’ll get back to that in a minute. The really interesting part of the story for me is the back story. In the…
Read MoreWorship Reflection Sunday, June 23, 2024
Mark 4:35-41 One of my favorite books is a small volume titled Strength to Love. It is a collection on sermons that Marting Luther King, Jr. preached at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. The book was published in 1963. In the Preface, King wrote: “In these days of uncertainty the evils of…
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