by Patty Parker | Nov 23, 2022 | Blog
My father passed away twelve years ago this month. My relationship with him—both living and in the time since his death—has proved a most rigorous lesson in forgiveness. Just as grief comes in waves, unforgiveness knocks us down unexpectedly and repeatedly....
by Gene Wilkes | Feb 12, 2021 | From the President
We have been seduced. We have been seduced into believing a post on a social media platform is talk. There. I said it. The emperor has no clothes. Anyone who believes electronically-produced words distributed over electronically-based platforms is conversation or...
by Jaclyn Parrish | Feb 1, 2018 | Carroll Community
My husband and I recently said goodbye to two of the best friends we’ve ever had. This couple had just walked with us through the most difficult season our marriage had yet faced, and the idea of continuing our journey without them was heartbreaking. True, we were...
by Wade Berry | Sep 26, 2017 | Ministry, Scripture, Theology
It has been longer than I care to admit since I was an adolescent. But I still remember that the kids in my youth group were consumed with a single question. “How physical can I get with my boyfriend/girlfirend?” The workers in my church had explained that...
by Stephen Suffron | May 25, 2017 | Leadership, Ministry
This past Tuesday there was a hole in my schedule that will only get more conspicuous each time it passes. I missed my biweekly lunch with my good friend Jon at a church across town–stories left unshared, prayers left unprayed. I am happy for him; we have been...
