“Once You Know, You Can’t Unknow”

“Once You Know, You Can’t Unknow”

FPC Civil Rights Pilgrimage   As they walked the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, the group followed a guide who had participated in the 1965 march. She had crossed this bridge then, when state troopers and local law enforcement waited on the other side....
Sending History Through the Mail

Sending History Through the Mail

100-year-old postcard returns to the church   “Once in a while, something out of the ordinary shows up in our lives. I was at an antique shop some years ago and found these two circa 1918 and 1936 postcards of your beautiful church,” the letter began. “Enlarged,...
The Light Is Not Gone

The Light Is Not Gone

A Journey to Cuba and the People Who Refuse to Give Up     When you’re in the dark and everything feels uncertain, the last thing you want is to feel alone. Right now, the people of Cuba are facing one of the darkest periods in their recent history, and they...
Lenten Devotional for Easter Sunday

Lenten Devotional for Easter Sunday

the good news is… alive in the world READ Matthew 28:1-10 The Resurrection of Jesus After the Sabbath, as the first day of the week was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb. And suddenly there was a great earthquake, for an angel of...
Lenten Devotional for Easter Sunday

Lenten Devotional for April 3

the good news is… revealed through nonviolence READ Luke 22:47-53; Luke 23:33-38, 44-46 COMMENTARY Nonviolent Resistance The Son of Man is on a mission—to resist the powers, human and otherwise, that foment injustice and tolerate brokenness. He speaks for the...
Lenten Devotional for Easter Sunday

Lenten Devotional for April 2

the good news is… revealed through nonviolence READ John 13:1-35 COMMENTARY He Loved Them to the End “Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end” (John 13:1). Jesus’ mercy is not just unmerited—it is scandalous. I would much rather...
Lenten Devotional for Easter Sunday

Lenten Devotional for April 1

the good news is… revealed through nonviolence READ Luke 22:47-53; Luke 23:33-38, 44-46 Revealed through Nonviolence | Lauren Wright Pitman Gouache & colored pencils on paper ARTIST STATEMENT Creating this image30 was overwhelming. I sought to capture Jesus’...
Lenten Devotional for Easter Sunday

Lenten Devotional for March 31

the good news is… inspiring us to act READ Mark 11:1-11 When they were approaching Jerusalem, at Bethphage and Bethany, near the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples and said to them, “Go into the village ahead of you, and immediately as you enter it,...
Lenten Devotional for Easter Sunday

Lenten Devotional for March 30

the good news is… inspiring us to act If You Hear Nothing Else, Then Hear This: You can make a fool of yourself. You can bet on the wrong thing, lose it all, unravel people’s trust. You can laugh at a funeral, curse in a church, say the wrong thing at the wrong...
Lenten Devotional for Easter Sunday

Lenten Devotional for March 29

the good news is… inspiring us to act READ Psalm 118:1-2, 19-29; Mark 11:1-11 WATCH In today’s video devotional, Rev. Anna Dickson reflects on the quiet, surprising ending to Jesus’ triumphal entry: after the fanfare and palm branches, he simply returns to...