Month: November 2016

(Message given at Newberg Friends Church on November 13, 2016) I made a commitment long ago to be as honest and transparent as I can be as pastor of this church. Not that I had a whole lot of choice, I’m not really the best …

(Message given at Newberg Friends Church on October 30, 2016) There’s a soft place in God’s heart for the outcast and the oppressed, for the underdog and the overlooked. In one sense, this has been a revolutionary thing to my mind and heart. Over the …

I’ve been thinking of the complications around being a “one issue” voter, especially when pro-life is the issue. Several years ago, my friend Elizabeth Sherwood began a ministry called “Young Lives” at our church, a ministry with a focus on teen parents. This was a …