Take Up Your Cross
When Jesus says, “Take up your cross and follow me,” he is not handing us a religious slogan about enduring whatever hurts. He is calling us back into our proper place—behind him...
When I no longer have to protect myself at all costs, mercy has room to flow...
A Small Table Between Sundays
When I first came to First Friends, I began writing a monthly newsletter. I wanted us to have something more than a list of dates and announcements. I hoped it might help us know one another, recognize what God was doing among us, and remain connected between Sundays...
When I Could No Longer Pray
God helps those…
A library story of silence, surrender, and the grace of waiting.
Mary Barrett Dyer: A Witness for Religious Freedom
The drums began before Mary could speak.
They were not the drums of celebration, nor the drums of soldiers marching toward glory. They were the hard, flat drums of a frightened city, struck by men who had been told that silence must be enforced with sound. The beat rolled against the timbered houses, rattled through the narrow streets, and pressed against the crowd gathering along the way…
To all who have been told to be silent,
yet still listen for the living Christ...
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