Don’t Be Afraid To Talk About Race

Today is Halloween though it may not feel like it. With the number of Coronavirus infections reaching its highest daily toll this week and the rate of infections on the rise in 47 states, it doesn’t just feel scary. It is. No ghouls or goblins but we wear masks because it’s scary outside. We don’t […]

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A Service of Lament: When God leaves you hanging

Welcome| “Has anyone seen God?”  Jill. M. Hudson writes in Congregational Trauma: caring, coping and learning, Trauma can strike anywhere any time and the church is generally ill- prepared to respond.” Many of us were taught that God is omnipresent, that the Divine was always around here somewhere, that God would come from up there […]

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Coronavirus Sunday: The doors of Bedside Baptist Church are open

“For such a time as this…”  This scripture from the fourth chapter of the book of Esther has been used to encourage and imply that one is equipped for the moment, that she and he was made for this hour.  But, is the Church in North America really ready for COVID-19?  With the cancellation of […]

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