Resources
Call to Worship: Palm Sunday “Jesus is on a Journey”
Use this link to download Call to Worship PDF. Sized so two copies may fit on a one sheet of 8 1/2 x 11...
Journey of the Magi
One of our favorite additions to the church's service for Epiphany is a staged reading of T.S. Eliot's classic poem for Christmas, "Journey of...
Christmas Tree of Hopes
I wanted to engage the community living and working near the church in a collaborative project at Christmas. With winter weather, earlier evenings, and...
Lighting the Joy Candle: A Litany for Two Readers
Use this link to download Call to Worship PDF. Sized so two copies may fit on a one sheet of 8 1/2 x 11...
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Split
At the start of each year in the United Kingdom, the monarch doles out “honors” to citizens who’ve contributed to the betterment of British society....
Origin Story
An Alabama court’s recent decision deeming frozen embryos “extrauterine children” resulted in the shutdown of several prominent IVF clinics. While many conservative Christians were pleased...
Truth and Healing
One of modern television’s most beloved series came to a conclusion Sept. 27 when a group of Native American teenagers, once determined to leave the...
Land Back
In 1777, Cherokee statesman Kaiyahtehee, also known as “Old Tassel,” arrived at Fort Henry near the Long Island in the Holston River to negotiate a treaty with...
Sermon Remix
Peter’s Dream. Martin’s Dream. God’s Dream.
This is the text of the sermon I delivered on Sunday, August 25, 2013. I offer it here today (with slight modifications) in honor...
Do We Get It?
Texts: Nehemiah 2.1-5, 13-18 and Philippians 2.1-13
This sermon originally preached on September 11, 2011
In the collective American psyche, September 11 is one of...
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Beyond Boundaries
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Our Mothering Father
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I am the Vine (Illustrated with Street Art from Baltimore)
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Walking with the Good Shepherd
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Jesus' Life and Martin's Death illustrated
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Jesus People
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Jesus' Life and Martin's Death
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Unchanging Changes Everything
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Waiting Room
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Worship in the Wilderness
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Crossed Bat Signals
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Book Reviews
A Review and a Reckoning Part 1
After listening to Clint Smith speak in an interview about his book How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery...
A Review and a Reckoning Part 2
While planning my daughters’ homeschool history lessons I stumbled across Wheatlands Plantation about an hour away from where we’ve been living in Tennessee. Not...
Daughters of Rizpah: Working Through Trauma
Buttry, Sharon A. and Daniel L. Buttry. Daughters of Rizpah: Nonviolence and the Transformation of Trauma. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2020.
Sharon and Dan Buttry...
World of Meaning
This month marks the 40th anniversary of the death of Howard Thurman (April 10), an early twentieth century African-American theologian, poet, pastor, and activist...
Books for Reckoning with White Supremacy in the American Church
The Cross and the Lynching Tree, James H. Cone (2011)
The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism, Jemar Tisby...
