Category: Welcome/Inclusion

• August 11, 2018

  All The Little Children

  Over coffee on a recent morning, my wife and I found ourselves talking about our family roots. My ancestors – rigorously investigated by a distant cousin – were Ulster-Scot and Welsh farmers arriving decades before the American Revolution. As they slipped southernly down the Appalachians, more than one Cherokee grandmother (of the Eastern Band in […]
• July 21, 2018

  Born to Belong

  Americans are ferocious individualists. We glorify the single, the personal, and the independent. And while there is no “I” in “team,” we don’t seem to care about this. We prefer the pronouns of “me” and “mine” over “us” or “ours.” This has been true of the American psyche from the beginning. The Founding Fathers were […]
• June 1, 2018

  You Are Welcome

  This first week of June the Eastern Orthodox Church will celebrate the annual Feast Day of St. Philip the Deacon, also known as Philip the Evangelist. He was an influential and powerful leader in the early church, and is most often remembered for his role in the conversion of an individual known simply as “The […]