Brandon Green

On Sunday, May 24, 2026, we continued our Season of Discernment with another Town Hall conversation. We focused primarily on reviewing the work we had done together at our previous Town Hall, where we used sticky notes to listen for what feels meaningful, what feels difficult, what ideas people have, and what contributions people may be willing to offer. We had hoped to move further into building out some practical “holy experiments” together, but we quickly realized there was too much...

This Faith & Leadership article wrestles with a question many of us carry: how do we keep tending our ordinary lives when the world is full of suffering and injustice? Andrea Palpant Dilley reflects on the tension between caring for home, family, and neighborhood while also staying awake to the needs of the wider world. Her answer is not either/or, but both/and: we are called to tend the small places entrusted to us while still looking up, reaching out, and joining in the larger work of...

This CAC meditation reflects on Julian of Norwich’s famous words, “All will be well,” not as easy optimism or spiritual bypassing, but as a deep trust in the mercy and loving-kindness of God. Mirabai Starr reminds us that Julian did not deny pain, suffering, or the ways we harm one another. Instead, Julian held those realities inside a larger truth: that blame does not have the final word, mercy is always near, and we are held in Divine Love even when we cannot yet see how all things will be...