A MESSAGE FROM THE REV. J.C. AUSTIN: IMPORTANT CONVERSATIONS As we hope you know, the Session and Trustees began an intensive season of mission discernment for our congregation with a joint retreat about ten months ago. That retreat focused on examining the kinds of...

A MESSAGE FROM THE REV. J.C. AUSTIN: GOOD ENOUGH Kate Bowler is a professor of the history of North American Christianity at Duke Divinity School, having studied at both Duke and Yale University first. She is a person, in other words, of considerable accomplishment,...

A MESSAGE FROM THE REV. J.C. AUSTIN: A NEW ADVENTURE Having dropped my son Liam off at college a few weeks ago, I find myself thinking back to my own experiences of my first few weeks of college. My setting was very different in many ways to his: Sewanee, where I...