Honoring Martin Luther King Jr.

Honoring Martin Luther King Jr.

“Everybody can be great…because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.” We have all likely heard...
A Fever in the Church

A Fever in the Church

The KKK and White Protestantism in Indiana “The one duty we owe history is to rewrite it.” This quote by author Oscar Wilde struck me at the end of Timothy Egan’s book A Fever in the Heartland. Yet the reality is that we can’t rewrite a history we don’t know.  I...
Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Our Church Family Thanksgiving This past Sunday I walked into the Fellowship Hall after worship to find a space filled with people, lots of good food, and so much wonderful conversation and laughing. As I walked Shane Claiborne, one of our special guests last Sunday,...
Celebrating Saint Francis

Celebrating Saint Francis

I have always found Francis of Assisi an inspiring and interesting man of history and faith. I wasn’t introduced to him until I was in college studying at an institution that honors his name. I was immediately interested in a man who would leave behind worldly riches...
Be a Lifelong Learner

Be a Lifelong Learner

I’m going to Kansas City, Kansas City here I come! Those are the lyrics to the famous song, now the official song of the city, written in 1952. Alright, to be honest, I’m actually heading to Leawood, Kansas, which is a southern suburb of the city to the United...