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February 1, 2024 Presbytery Pause - A straggling group of survivors walked away and started a new village about a mile up the road. They...

January 21, 2024 Presbytery Pause - Matthew 25 summit SOLD OUT, gathering 350 Presbyterians from around the country with fantastic...

January 5, 2024 Presbytery Pause - "Presbyterians on the whole pride ourselves for being life-long learners. It's one of the ways pastors...

December 8, 2023 Presbytery Pause - If you search for the meaning of the word “threshold,” you’ll get something like what I got from...

November 23, 2023 Presbytery Pause by Tracy Keenan - We sing the Doxology at the top of our lungs when we think of how God shows up...

November 11, 2023 Presbytery Pause - Sharing a posted video of the worship during our Presbytery's Covenant Conversation ... May our love...

October 26, 2023 Presbytery Pause - "Fearmongering goes far beyond Halloween antics. But let's save our serious efforts for the work of...

Tracy and I have just finished our time at the annual Polity, Mission, and Benefits Conference for mid council leaders in the PC(USA)....

September 28, 2023 Presbytery Pause - "The black water so perfectly mirrored the trunks and the overhanging greenery that it felt at...

September 14, 2023 Presbytery Pause: History ... Wanting to understand the biblical and theological justifications that allowed...

August 31, 2023 Presbytery Pause: Rev. Dr. Tracy Keenan asks you to think about some of the unspoken but quirky rules about death that...

A few weeks ago, I arrived for an in-person meeting early and the doors weren't unlocked yet. I found a group of adults and young...

August 3, 2023 Presbytery Pause - Church doesn't seem to be high on anyone's list these days besides us church folks ... perhaps churches...

July 20, 2023 Presbytery Pause - Bask in God's love! A brief "pause" with a reminder for "Staff on the road"!

July 6, 2023 Presbytery Pause - "One reason we keep pointing to the Matthew 25 Movement of the PC(USA) is that it connects our faith to...

Have you ever stopped to think about all the facets of your identity and how they intersect with one another to make up who you are in...

Full disclosure: I never enjoyed learning history in school. Some of that was because of disinterested teachers who were tired and maybe...

May 11, 2023 Presbytery Pause: We need to make sure that church is a place truth can be spoken in love ... where we are equipped with the...

April 29, 2023 Presbytery Pause: Christ is risen! Almost two thousand years later, I wonder if this is the way Jesus hoped the world...

April 13, 2023 Presbytery Pause: Here's the real truth ... Most of the churches we know have much more potential than they think they do.