Reflections
Strong Community
I was reminded that God doesn’t just tell us to love our neighbors for their benefit; the command to love my neighbor is actually a gift to me, too.
Reflections
You Are Not Alone
But too often, instead of reveling in our connections, we feel alone and isolated. We are not alone.
Reflections
Honest Talk About White Privilege
We took the first of many steps (and we will definitely make missteps, too) in our work yesterday when we talked about how the church and Empire (white American culture) have worked together to make white supremacy reign in both our congregations and in our country. Our conversation was just the beginning of a lifetime journey toward antiracism.
Community
Finding Freedom
During the past several weeks in worship we’ve been talking about our core values, the ways that show and share our commitments to Christ with others. We say that at Two Rivers Church, we are authentic, beautiful, creative, vulnerable and inclusive. This week, we focused on our value of Inclusivity. So Read more…
Community
The Children Will Lead Them
My oldest son participated in the school walkout yesterday at his high school in North Charleston. Protest and demonstrating has long been a part of his life – he attended his first vigil against the war in Iraq when he was just three months old. As a veteran of marches, Read more…