by Pastor Tim Oslovich       Have you ever had to have a high stakes, high emotion conversation with someone when your opinion differed from theirs?  How did it go?  Most of us...

In 1985, Wendell Berry, a farmer/philosopher/poet, wrote an essay with the title, “What Are People For?” He wrote about the huge reduction in the number of farmers in the United States, especially after World...

In his book, Start: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average and Do Work That Matters, Jon Acuff suggests that a big part of getting our priorities right is being willing to disappoint the...

Dirk Willems is not a name that most people in the twenty-first century know. Dirk was an Anabaptist who lived in the Netherlands in the 1500s. Anabaptists were part of what is called the...

Thank you to everyone who participated in the Church Health Assessment Tool survey. I know that it was a lot of questions (70!) plus an open-ended question at the end. I am very grateful...

When I was preparing my sermon for the Fifth Sunday of Easter (April 29), I was reading about the Ethiopian eunuch whom Philip met on the Gaza Road. You might remember that story. The...

The earliest Easter gospel is not in one of the four Gospels. It is in another reading that we sometimes hear on Easter: 1 Corinthians 15:13-4: “For I handed on to you as of...