by Christian Coon | Jun 13, 2019 | BLOG, Communion, Inclusion
I’ve been in the ministry for more than 21 years, which means my children (ages 18 and 14) have only known life as PKs, pastor’s/preacher’s kids. Their experience is fairly atypical from most PKs, I think, especially since their main memories have...
by Christian Coon | May 22, 2019 | BLOG, Service
My wife and I visited Charleston, SC, a couple weeks ago to celebrate our silver anniversary. I had never been to Charleston, but I did something I rarely do. Or, more accurately, I didn’t do something I usually do. I didn’t exhaustively research a travel...
by Christian Coon | Apr 16, 2019 | BLOG
As we draw closer to Easter, I still can’t get Ash Wednesday out of my head. Well, not Ash Wednesday per se, but a comment that someone made to me as we were finishing up our annual offering ashes to passersby on the street. For the ninth year, I stood on the south...
by Christian Coon | Feb 15, 2019 | BLOG, Compassion, Grief, Lament, Surprise
Jesus answered, “Woman, you have great faith. It will be just as you wish.” And right then her daughter was healed. (Matthew 15:28) I’m not sure this would be considered a New Year’s resolution, but I saw a few “Top 10 Albums of 2018” lists at...
by Christian Coon | Jan 7, 2019 | BLOG, Humility, Prayer
Because all of our church’s staff works remotely, our church’s main phone number is connected to our cell phones. So, if you call 312-268-5300, you can then dial the extension 101 and it would be sent to my cell phone. In addition, if someone dials...
