“We are in a scary time for people like me to be coming out. But if I have learned anything throughout my life, it is that love and community are the most effective weapons to combat fear and division.”
“Bayard Rustin, Audre Lorde, Langston Hughes, Pauli Murray, Gloria Anzaldúa, Alvin Ailey, and James Baldwin straddled treacherous breaches between lowliness and magnificence; mercy and might; exaltations and put-downs.”
“I was looking for a church to attend, because after almost four decades of being an ordained minister, it would have been hard to stop going to church. It is clear that at St. John’s, the clergy and guest preachers take preaching seriously.”
This summer, I will be stepping away from my duties as Music Director at St. John’s for a time of intentional rest, reflection, and renewal
“It provides a method of discussion that the participants can carry with them as they think and rehear these stories that are so central to our faith.”
“Thanks to a memorial gift, the Don Husband Memorial Covered Walkway was recently constructed between the main clinic and the lab.”
“By focusing on stories of inspiring, spiritual women, we are not excluding anyone. We are bringing out the mother in each of us.”
“This is the first time we’ve been involved in a church as a family, so we’re kind of learning what that means as we go. It’s been a meaningful and generative routine for us all to go to church every Sunday.”
