A host of activities filled the calendar on Martin Luther King Day. Community service projects, downtown parades, clergy breakfasts, and ecumenical worship services were all on the slate to honor Dr. King’s legacy and celebrate the 86th anniversary of his…
Quoting King
Beyond belief
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Coping with opposition
While living in Louisville, Kentucky (while attending seminary many more years ago than I would like to admit) I was briefly employed as a youth minister for a 150-year-old congregation located downtown. Situated in what had been a very prosperous…
A profoundly simple question – where is your faith?
It feels like a trick question. Like the one a teacher asks each new class: “How many months of the year have 28 days?” Just as surely as someone always yells out “February,” a more thoughtful student eventually realizes: “All…
To hand someone a dollar or not?
by Kim Priddy, Associate Pastor of Missions To hand someone a dollar or not? This is a debate that is faced when you come upon someone holding a cardboard sign at an intersection that reads: “Hungry- Anything Helps.” The bible…