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Twenty years ago, the Tri-Faith Initiative was founded on a simple but courageous belief: that people of different faiths could choose relationships over fear, curiosity over assumptions, and friendship over […]

I wonder what the criteria was for the women of Berea to be “prominent.” The current Secretary of Defense wants to test for prominence—aka leadership—by measuring testosterone levels of all […]

I live in a wet, green land, where trees guzzle water from the  ground like frat boys drinking beer from a keg in a movie. Therefore, I find dew to […]

It’s summer where I live, which means I’m stocking up on Band-Aids again. My grandson keeps showing up with a new scrape or two on a knee. I kneel down, speak soothingly, examine the […]

Abundance. I think that’s what the Song of Songs is about. The abundance of flowers, beautiful sounds, and fragrances. To be sure, Christian scholars don’t agree as to whether that abundance is Christ’s love for the […]

I remember a lot of things at night. Perhaps you do, too. I usually start with everything I didn’t get done that day. The calls not made, the emails not answered, the deadlines missed. Then the remembrances expand to the things I wish […]

In 2015, Countryside accepted an invitation to become the Christian partner in the Tri-Faith Initiative—a bold vision to bring Jewish, Muslim, and Christian communities together as neighbors on the Tri-Faith […]

It’s that time of the year. Summer. Longer days. Shorter nights. It is the season for summer road trips: vacation destinations, family reunions, day trips for sightseeing, picnicking, hiking, swimming—just about […]

Countryside Community Church has been awarded the Accessible to All (A2A) certification by the United Church of Christ Disabilities Board of Directors. With this designation, Countryside joins a growing network […]

The kitchen was quiet as I showed my four-year-old how to mix water into his paints, his small hand dragging a heavy stroke of cobalt across the paper. Then the […]