Dear Hope Friends,Many times over the years, you've heard me say that Hope is a "we" church. In many established or traditional churches there is a common question by members: "why don't they do xyz?" "when are they gonna start offering x?" "If only they had y, we'd like this church better."At Hope Church, there has never been a magical they. I believe that churches were never supposed to operate ...

Dear Hope Friends and Family,Last week we celebrated that every single human is created in the image of God. It means that God's Image is really diverse and we are all Image-Bearers! Part of honoring the Imago Dei in every person, is acknowledging when implicit bias learned from family or personal experience or the cultural clues gets in the way of that. This is not an exercise in guilt or floggin...