Someday, you may get asked this question: how did you carry on through COVID-19? With all those months of home quarantine, social isolation, and mounting death tolls, what kept your soul and sanity intact? Did you lean hard on family, friends, or neighbors? Was your church a lifeline? Was there a particular prayer practice you… Read More

In some ways, this Advent and Christmas will be like every other year. Advent will begin four Sundays before Christmas. We will light Advent wreaths, and remember how the light of God came to be with us in Jesus Christ. We will look forward to our Lord’s advent, anticipating that great day when we will… Read More

We have never seen a year like 2020.  Unless you were around at the outbreak of the Spanish Flu, you have not lived through a global pandemic like COVID-19. And if you were alive in 1918, you don’t remember it today. 2020 brought the largest wildfire season in California history, burning more than 4% of… Read More