Below is the meditation Pastor John offered at the blessing service for Celina Jamieson’s mother, Elvina Brown, on Friday. “Sunday’s coming.” With those words, in these last months, Elvina Brown would remind her daughter Celina of where she wanted to be come 11 a.m. on the first day of the week. What a gift it …
Dear Caldwell, David Johnson-Beard asked to share his thoughts about our visitors last Sunday and the Caldwell community. (Thank you, David.) Dear Pastor John, I wanted to send you a note of thanks, not only to you, but more specifically to the membership of the church. As a person who dares to call himself …
Dear Caldwell, As we travel from Sunday to Sunday this week, don’t forget about our non-conventional Christian Formation, non-“Sunday School” offering, newly dubbed Pints and Paths (formerly Theology on Tap). At Caldwell, we recognize that traditional “Sunday school” doesn’t fit everyone’s life. Nonetheless, our faith calls us to feed our minds and hearts with study and the …
How very good and pleasant it is when kindred dwell together! It is like the precious oil on the head, running down upon the beard, on the beard of Aaron, running down over the collar of his robes. – Psalm 133 Dear Caldwell, Someone asked me recently whether the people of the Bible had coffee. I admitted …
Dear Caldwell, As we travel from Sunday to Sunday this week, we live in tension – the tension that comes with knowing our sovereign God is with us, yet seeing the world so broken (witnessed just this week in the tragedy in Roanoke). As I said in my sermon last Sunday, living in tension can convey to …
Grant, O God, that your holy and life-giving Spirit may so move every human heart, that barriers which divide us may crumble, suspicions disappear, and hatreds cease, that our divisions being healed, we live in justice and peace. Book of Common Prayers
Restore us again, O God of our salvation …. Psalm 85 Dear Caldwell, As many of you know, this is the third day of jury deliberations in the trial of CMPD Officer Randall Kerrick. A group of Charlotte pastors focused on justice has organized a way for our city to bear witness at various houses …
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Dear Caldwell, Let us pray …. Those words mark our life together and our prayers take different forms on different occasions. Tomorrow night at 7 p.m. in the sanctuary, Music Director Anne Hunter Eidson and Rev. Dr. Diane Mowrey, our Parish Associate Pastor and University Chaplain at Queens University, will lead a special service of …
Dear Caldwell, It’s good to be back in the office after last week’s Youth Mission Trip. Thanks to all who welcomed the mission team back with such warmth and love on Sunday. As I travel from Sunday to Sunday this week, I saw the bumper sticker above on a car in the grocery store parking …
Dear Caldwell, On Monday night, a few of us attended a meeting organized by the NAACP featuring two panels. We heard a number of important messages concerning community issues, public policy and policing. One of the strongest and most compelling, however, was from the mother of Jonathan Ferrell, who was shot and killed by a …
