Callings – Festival Center Reopens! New Wellspring Director Adam Greene, Easter Sunrise Service, +More
Callings – Spring 2023 The Spring 2023 issue of Callings is full of exciting updates from the community beginning with the long anticipated and greatly welcomed reopening of The Festival Center at 1640 Columbia Road, NW after its complete renovation. Director of Development Lindsay Fertig-Johnson details all of the improvements and program intentions looking forward. Adam Greene […]
Open Our Hearts – Mar. 24, 2023
“The promise of Lent is that something will be born of the ruin, something so astoundingly better than the present moment that we cannot imagine it. Lent is seeded with resurrection. The Resurrection promises that a new future will be given to us when we beg to be stripped of the lie of separation, when […]
Open Our Eyes – Mar. 20, 2023
“The very places Indiana bats trusted to preserve them betrayed them. Cool, dark, and humid, cave air not only holds bats in metabolic equipoise, it also invigorates a fungus new to North America. Brought from Europe on spelunkers’ gear, spores of the fungus multiplied rampantly in caves of northeastern states, then spread farther and faster […]
But Now We See
Why do we get caught up in culture wars, arguing about what is sinful and who’s at fault? Worse yet, good church folk are not the only ones arguing about who’s got God on their side. Parties and nations do it too. Religiousity has entered our political realm at full volume. In today’s gospel reading, […]