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On July 1, 2025, I, along with 12 other pastors from throughout the country, began a journey together as a cohort with the Pause/Play Center for Preachers at St. Paul School of Theology in Kansas City, Missouri. The cohort came to an end June 30. For the past 12 months, I have been challenged to tap into my creativity, find time to engage in intentional “play,” and figure out what sabbath looks like for me, and then to actually take the sabbath rest. The cohort has met monthl

I am so excited to be diving into “Ask the Pastor 2.0”! Iappreciate everyone’s thoughtful questions and, honestly, acouple of these questions were about theological concepts I have never heard about before (and I do love to learn new things!). Like last year, we will have a couple of “multi-week” topics and a couple of “one-offs.” It should provide for interesting discussions. Our topics this year will cover the concept of how the Divine is connected, the heaven/earth connect

May is both a month of endings and a month of beginnings – mostly between the end of the school year and celebrating graduations and beginning of summer. May is also a month of remembering and honoring, as we observe both Mother’s Day and Memorial Day. Mother’s Day especially can bring mixed emotions for people. So, every few years, I remind myself (and everyone else that I can) about the origins of Mother’s Day. Did you know: Mother’s Day began as a movement for peace. After

You gotta laugh, right? And you gotta laugh in church??? Right??? This year, for the first Sunday of Eastertide (in other words, April 12), weare going to worship together in a way that might look just a littledifferent. We are going to observe Holy Humor Sunday! What is “Holy Humor Sunday?” Amazingly, it is not some new-fangledidea (though I only heard of it a few years ago). It is a tradition that goesback to at least the 15th century. Holy Humor Sunday is a day set a

By Denisha Dodge-Summerour I attended the 2024 CYF Seminar “Face-to-Face With Other Faiths.” For seven days, I visited Washington, D.C....

Linda Wilson packed up donations collected at Bridgeport Christian Church to benefit area veterans on Jan. 30. The photo displays just a...