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 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 | 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...
by Carol Burns | Sep 22, 2023
A MESSAGE FROM THE REV. J.C. AUSTIN: IMPORTANT CONVERSATIONS As we hope you know, the Session and Trustees began an intensive season of mission discernment for our congregation with a joint retreat about ten months ago. That retreat focused on examining the kinds of...
by Carol Burns | Sep 15, 2023
A MESSAGE FROM THE REV. J.C. AUSTIN: GOOD ENOUGH Kate Bowler is a professor of the history of North American Christianity at Duke Divinity School, having studied at both Duke and Yale University first. She is a person, in other words, of considerable accomplishment,...
by Carol Burns | Sep 8, 2023
A MESSAGE FROM THE REV. J.C. AUSTIN: A NEW ADVENTURE Having dropped my son Liam off at college a few weeks ago, I find myself thinking back to my own experiences of my first few weeks of college. My setting was very different in many ways to his: Sewanee, where I...
