Let me tell you a story about a group of people who have a history of getting into good trouble, to borrow the words of John Lewis. Now some might think these individuals are united as a group by their ethnic or linguistic heritage, the hymns they like the most, or their affinity for casseroles […]
In the first year of serving my first church, I decided to wander through the village cemetery for the first time. I was on a mission to find a famous person’s headstone. After I had found Jane Addams’ burial place (she founded Hull House in Chicago, a settlement house, in 1889), I wandered around the […]
I suppose January is as good of time as any to take stock in an organization’s progress. Annual meetings dot the calendars of churches, college presidents reassure alumni and alumnae with updates, and the United States president interrupts prime time television with his State of the Union address. Sadly, there is no potluck luncheon following […]
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