“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.”

“Lent is a time of fasting and stripping away so that we can attend to the essence of who God is calling us to be and what God is calling us to do.”

“We have been given power beyond ourselves to resist evil. We have been given courage to face any fear. We have been given hope for we are bound together with the whole of the body of Christ, saints both living and who have gone before, who will walk with us in resisting evil.”

“Inside of this old, impressive, historic church is a lively, relevant, growing faith community.”