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Community Stories

These short stories either follow what Spring Church is focusing on in a particular season, like Christmas or Easter, or they take culturally relevant topics and frame them through a Biblical lens. You can look through our entire category of over 7 years of stories using the dropdown.

Spring Church 2/24/21 Spring Church 2/24/21

Lament for Racial Brokenness

12 minute read

Spring Church 9/30/20 Spring Church 9/30/20

If You Want Something To Be Better

1 minute read

Spring Church 9/2/20 Spring Church 9/2/20

What if Jesus isn't an American?

3 minute read

Spring Church 6/18/20 Spring Church 6/18/20

Juneteenth

(2 minute read)

Last week somebody mentioned Juneteenth, and I realized that I don’t have a clue what Juneteenth is about. I’ve grown up hearing about it, it’s on my electronic calendar, and it’s always been around me. Yet, all I knew was, “It’s a holiday for African-Americans.”

Spring Church 6/10/20 Spring Church 6/10/20

How do we braid justice into our everyday lives?

3 minute read (plus videos)

Old Testament prophets consistently talk about how pandemics, pestilences, and plagues make visible sins that are easily hidden, and the sin of racism in America has certainly been visible in the last few weeks.

Spring Church 6/5/20 Spring Church 6/5/20

Hearing from African-Americans in the Church

Resource Library - Blog itself <5 min read

This week I’d like to listen to the African-American voice right now. Several of the folks at Spring Church contributed their favorite articles, videos and podcasts to this blog post.