All Saints Sunday has become one of the most meaningful days in the Christian calendar for me. 

Dear Beloved Colleagues in Ministry, October invites us to pause and give thanks for those who have answered Christ’s call to shepherd God's people.

“There was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne.” – Revelation 7:9 (NRSVA)

I find myself wondering what kind of face the new age will have.

“See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?” - Isaiah 43:19a (NIV)

Pentecost is often called the birthday of the Church. Yet Pentecost is more than a memory of how the Church began.

There are places where history becomes more than memory. There are places where the wounds of the past and the mercy of God meet in a way that makes the soul tremble.

“In him we live and move and have our being.” – Acts 17:28

On the morning of resurrection, the angel spoke with quiet clarity: “He is not here… Go to Galilee; there you will see Him.” (Matthew 28:7)

I was raised among the shadows of war.