Image: Rev. Polly Moore Dear Beloved Community, My heart is full of gratitude this week. Thank you to everyone who came out this past Saturday to help clean the church. There is something deeply sacred about caring for a space together. Not because the building itself is the church, but because it holds so much of our shared life, prayer, grief, joy, welcome, and hope. When we clean, organize, repair, and tend to this place together, we are also tending to one another. I am

Image: Rev. Victor H. Floyd Dear Beloved Community, What a joy it was this past Sunday to have Jim Garrison, David Hooper, and Stephen Hulse lead us in worship for Holy Humor Sunday. Their offering brought laughter, delight, and a spirit of holy joy into our sanctuary, and it was a beautiful reminder that joy is not separate from our faith, but part of how God meets us and sustains us. In times that can feel overwhelming or uncertain, joy can arrive as a sacred interruptio

Image: Jorge Bautista Dear Beloved Community, This Sunday is Easter Sunday, and what good news it is that love, life, and hope rise again! We will reflect on Mark 16:1–8 alongside Mary Oliver’s “Morning Poem,” as both invite us into the wonder of a new morning and the promise of new life. In Mark’s Gospel, the women arrive at the tomb expecting death, only to discover that the stone has been rolled away and resurrection is already unfolding. Mary Oliver reminds us that eac