by Christian Coon | Jul 25, 2019 | BLOG, Community, Imagination, Ministry
Some of you know that I’ve shifted my job responsibilities at Urban Village and am now the Pastor of Emerging Ministries. One of my main tasks is to explore creative ways UVC might connect to the areas our sites are located. My biggest project in this new job is...
by Christian Coon | Jul 15, 2019 | BLOG, Faith
There was one magic week this summer where no one in our family had a conflict so before my daughter heads off to college this fall, we decided to take a family vacation to a somewhat exotic location. After doing some exhaustive research (that is, Googling “fun...
by Christian Coon | Jun 30, 2019 | BLOG, Prayer
My son has gotten into indoor rock climbing in recent months so about once a week, my wife or I take him to a climbing gym on the north side of the city where he can scale to his heart’s content. I usually just stick around and go to a nearby coffee place and...
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...
