Starting May 9th, Knox will be opening our doors for in-person worship again.  This marks the first time since March of 2020 that we will host indoor services. The pandemic forced congregations like Knox to close our sanctuary doors.  We set our minds and hearts to worshiping God online.  We found powerful ways to connect… Read More

There is a great awakening taking place in the church today.   Christians around the world are recognizing two inter-connected truths: (1) we are in the midst of an enormous ecological crisis that calls for individual and collective action; (2) the Bible and Christian theology have a great deal to say about the value of all… Read More

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

Dear Friends, Back in May, the session of Knox Presbyterian Church formed a re-entry task force.  The group was asked to explore how and when we might safely return to utilizing the Knox campus.  At the task force’s request, a survey was then sent out in early August, asking you about your experience with online… Read More

Suppose you are called to some grand mission. You want to end racism or see the homeless housed. You long to proclaim the gospel to people who have never heard it before. Defense of the immigrant, the orphan, and the widow is your heart’s call. Or you yearn to bring renewal to a declining congregation… Read More

Juneteenth has become a popular holiday in the United States, marking the day enslaved people were liberated in the United States. While the Emancipation Proclamation had been issued in 1863, it was more than two years later — June 19th, 1865 — that slavery’s abolition was finally announced in Texas. With that, the proclamation reached… Read More