Rev. Ethan Brown, Pastor and Minister of Care & Discipleship

Well, HHBC Family, once again y'all have shown you know how to work! This past Sunday afternoon a couple dozen of us—church members, scouts and parents, and neighborhood residents—gathered to care for the beautiful bit of creation that makes up our church grounds. We had teams spreading mulch, trimming bushes, pulling weeds, and, what I spent most of my time doing, waging war against the invasive English Ivy slowly choking out most of our trees. The pernicious vines have been slowly creeping...

It was sometime in 1980 that CBS anchor Dan Rather interviewed Mother Teresa. By this point in her life, Mother Teresa had already spent three decades living in and serving the poorest of the poor in the slums of Calcutta, India. Certainly she had some spiritual insight to share and while there are many aspects of that interview that are worth considering, perhaps the most famous is what Mother Teresa said about prayer. When Dan Rather asked her, “When you pray, what do you say to God?”...

I had jury duty this week. It was my first time ever getting the call to serve, and mostly, it was disappointing. I was hoping for a short two day trial so I could get the full experience. Instead I spent 1-2 hours every morning sitting in a large room with people I didn’t know until we were dismissed. While I did get some nice reading done, I could imagine better uses of my time. Finally, on Wednesday, after we were given notice of our last dismissal, we were told that the judge wanted to...