Years ago, I sat in a local Cava on my lunch break and heard a conversation between two young men sitting next to me. They were talking about planting a church in Southeast D.C. Immediately, my ears perked up because after seminary, I spent two years working in Southeast D.C. with a faith-based nonprofit creating …
By Bill and Lauren Luke grew up in the preschool at my (Bill) last church. I saw him almost every school day and again on Sundays. Luke was a great hugger and would run at me from the other side of whatever room I happened to be in and wrap his arms around me in …
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A few years before Covid-19 stopped the world, a preacher named Lon Solomon did a sermon series called “So What?” Now, I don’t know much about his ministry or about his theological and political leanings, but I thought his question and how he presented the series by answering questions of faith were powerful. So what? …
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When I moved back to Maryland after living in South Carolina, I moved to a predominately white suburb. I landed there because I stayed in hotel near the city the prior Thanksgiving, and my GPS directed me through the town and by a new development. When I saw it, I purposed to live there when …