Field notes from a small church.
Essays, letters, and short reflections from our pastors and friends. Updated most Fridays. Best read with coffee.
What I learned picking up trash on Maple Ave for three years.
It started as a small Saturday habit and turned into something I can only describe as a slow miracle. A reflection on showing up to the same place, every week, with no agenda, and what it does to your soul.
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An open invitation to our Wednesday table.
Bring a friend. Bring nothing. We've got chairs.
A letter to anyone who left church and isn’t sure they want to come back.
We see you. There's no test at the door. Here's what showing up could look like.
Why we read the whole Bible, even the weird parts.
On the strange grace of staying with a text you don't like, until it gives you something back.
I prayed every morning for a year. Here’s what happened.
Spoiler: not what I expected. A slow accounting of small shifts.
How we teach kids about a God who isn’t scary.
Our approach to Sunday kids programming, and the theology underneath it.
On staying.
A short meditation on the underrated spiritual practice of not leaving.
The desert is also a place God lives. (Sermon notes)
Notes and references from the May 24 teaching on the wilderness motif.
A letter to anyone holding grief on a Sunday morning.
You're allowed to come anyway. You're allowed to leave early. You're allowed to cry.
What the Maple Ave cleanup team has learned in three years.
Lessons from showing up Saturday mornings to a corner that doesn't always seem to need us.