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Cognitive Resonance
I was in a coffee shop writing a sermon several weeks ago when I overheard someone speaking about their parents’ Christian faith. I didn’t hear the context, but I did hear him say that he just couldn’t understand his parents’ beliefs; he ...
Read MoreThe Downward Path
The way of grace is not upward, to places of power and status, but downward, towards those who hunger, suffer, or who weep. This is the path that walk with Jesus throughout the days of Holy Week.
Henri Nouwen once titled a chapter in a book ...
Read MoreThe “Organizing” Part of Community Organizing
I’m so grateful to Trinity’s Greater Cleveland Congregations (GCC) Core Team for leading a campaign of one-on-one conversations to help us discern where Trinity’s passion and capacity for social justice is strongest.
These conversations...
Read MoreTest Driving Realm
While traveling this week, I had some time between flights to take our new congregational communication platform, Realm, out for a test drive. You know what? It was really useful…and actually kind of fun!
Over the years, Trinity and many ...
Read MoreThe Cost of Great Love
When Jesus says to Peter and the disciples that they must take up their cross and follow him, he was saying that speaking truth, and living faithfully for others, often comes at great cost.
In his weekly blog , Dean Andrew McGowan of Berkele...
Read MoreTrinity Friars Dinner Group
The Trinity Friars dinner group will be back this year, gathering on Fridays in the Lenten season to find the best church fish fry in greater Cleveland. All are welcome to join the group and attend one or more of these (offsite) dinners for fo...
Read MoreEssential Tools For Connection
Let’s turn our phones and tablets into powerful tools for building our faith community!
I am old enough to remember phone books, spiral-bound church directories, and even things like kitchen phones that you clutched between shoulder and e...
Read MoreNext Steps in The Battle for Democracy
When Khalilah Worley of Greater Cleveland Congregations (GCC) joined me for last Sunday’s Dean’s Forum, she shared something striking: even as GCC has had great success on particular issues, the tide of voter disengagement in Northeast Ohio ...
Read MoreThe Battle for Democracy
As Americans and people of faith, we hold sacred our right to vote. Our democratic values call us not only to honor each person’s perspective and voice, but to work harder to make sure that all voices – including those historically marginal...
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