by Carol Burns | Oct 13, 2023
A MESSAGE FROM THE REV. LINDSEY ALTVATER CLIFTON: TAKING THE FIRST STEPS Dear ones, Next week, we begin the first steps in our campus planning and community engagement process alongside our partners from Collabo and Urban Ventures! We’ve named this planning endeavor...
by Carol Burns | Oct 8, 2023
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” James Baldwin wrote these words in November of 1980, but if he were still living, he...
by Carol Burns | Oct 6, 2023
A MESSAGE FROM THE REV. J.C. AUSTIN: SHARING YOUR GIFTS This Sunday, October 8, is the deadline for nominations of people to serve in elected office in the church, starting in early 2024. I want to talk this week about exactly what that means, because the election of...
by Carol Burns | Oct 1, 2023
When I was twelve years old, my family moved from here in the Lehigh Valley to Atlanta, Georgia. My father had been a senior executive at an outdoor advertising company, and when the company was finally sold, he and several of the other executives banded together to...
by Carol Burns | Sep 29, 2023
A MESSAGE FROM THE REV. J.C. AUSTIN: GETTING THE BASICS There’s an old story about multiple generations of a family gathered around the Thanksgiving table discussing what they are most thankful for, and one of the adults asks, “What modern convenience are you most...
