Craig’s Blog

Last week, the presbytery office hosted a leadership gathering for the chairpersons of our presbytery committees and entities. The goal was to...

Last week I attended an event in Champaign, Illinois, hosted by the Presbyterian Church Growth Network (PCGN). Founded by Josh Erickson, pastor of...

  I hear music everywhere. In restaurants, retail, and grocery stores, and even in cars passing on the street. When a song catches me, I’ll pull out...

My wife is a farmer’s daughter, and she tells me it’s planting season. This is the time when farmers prepare the soil and plant seeds for a future...

Let us be peacemakers. Let us be called the children of God, speaking boldly with moral conviction to the nation and to the world, building, with...

 Can you believe it is already Lent? It seemed to arrive almost overnight this year. The pace of the calendar rarely slows, and yet Lent asks us to....

I’m still excited from Bad Bunny’s halftime show at Sunday’s Super Bowl. I don’t speak Spanish, and I didn’t understand most of the lyrics, but the...

Churches today face multiple pressures that threaten their sense of stability and future: aging membership, costly buildings, tightening budgets,...

As a child, my mother told me stories about going to church with her grandmother. My great-grandmother belonged to a Pentecostal church that...