This week, we celebrate five years of marriage equality, when the Supreme Court ruled that same-sex marriage was constitutional and to be implemented across the country. That day my news feeds were filed with rainbows, couples embracing while they wept tears of joy and relief, celebrations, and courthouse step weddings. Read more…
For those of us who have lived in Charleston for more than five years, we divide our tenure here into “before the Emanuel AME shooting” and “after the Emanuel AME shooting.”
The most urgent work of our time as white people is to dismantle white supremacy and fully embrace a life of anti-racism.
Friends, our community is unlike any other. Throughout these past seven weeks, I see you again and again reaching out to one another, reaching out to our neighbors, reaching out to those on the margins and vulnerable. We have maintained and deepened our relationship to one another and to God Read more…
Dear friends, On Thursday, I dusted off a favorite cookbook and brought out my supplies to make homemade bread. We were down to our last few slices of store-bought bread, and I want to be sure we had enough for sandwiches. I forget how amazing the simple act of mixing Read more…
Dear friends, Yesterday we gathered from our couches, bedrooms, kitchen tables and backyards to worship together online. In this new season of responding to COVID-19, our commitment to worship God together and supporting one another has not waned; as we experienced in our online worship, we find support and encouragement Read more…
Dear friends, One reason I love Two Rivers so deeply is because our community is always mindful of the impact our actions have on the community around us. The work of our church is strongest when we hold ourselves accountable to this practice, because we recognize that our work is Read more…
Dear friends, Talk of the coronavirus COVID-19 is all around us as cases mount worldwide and new cases are diagnosed in the United States. While we have not had a case officially diagnosed here in South Carolina, we know that schools, businesses and health care organizations are preparing for the Read more…
“Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to obey everything that I’ve commanded you. Look, I myself will be with you every day until the end of this present age.” Matthew Read more…
In the Bible, God spoke in booming voices from the sky, in quiet whispers, in the actions of others, in the conversations of prayer and countless other ways. This month as we move through the darkness of winter where much around us asleep we turn our attention to the times Read more…