The book of Acts describes the first Christian community as radically unified and radically welcoming – a beautiful combination. God used those first communities…

There’s one Saturday every December when our church building, W83, is transformed into what just might be the biggest birthday party on the Upper…

Just over 35 years ago on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, a new church called Redeemer opened its doors for its first Sunday morning worship…

As we saw in yesterday’s sermon, one of the wonders of the Christian faith is that Jesus calls his people friends: Greater love has…

In 1964, Martin Luther King, Jr. gave the opening address for the Berlin Jazz Festival. As he spoke about music’s power to connect to…

Theologian Robert Karris said that if you read through the Gospel of Luke, you’ll see that “Jesus is either going to a meal, at…

Imagine for a moment that you’ve been given the location of a buried treasure. You’ve been told where it is and given everything you…

A few years ago, one of our church’s youth ministry volunteers told me that serving with youth was a lot like being Alan Shepard….