Engage Embrace Encourage

On Sunday, October 16 we announced the sad news that we will be leaving Ford Street Church effective December 31, 2022. This is sad news for us because Lapel is a community we deeply love. Ford Street Church has given us a beautiful phase of life and has been a safe and loving place for

I recently received a copy of The American Literary Version of the New Testament (the fifth volume in the series of translations of the books of the bible Bibliotheca, vol V, Writ Press, Santa Cruz, CA 2021).  The website for this translation presents the work as “A gently updated edition of the 1901 American Standard

®Recently, we’ve been working a lot to listen to each other and develop a vision, narrative, and logo which can help us to tell our story at Ford Street Church. Last week we surveyed the congregation digitally and via paper surveys to see how everyone was feeling about the Embrace, Engage, Encourage vision and the

As the old year turns into the next the desire to turn away from stories related to any kind of epidemic is strong. A sad reality, nonetheless, is that the Covid19 pandemic remains with us with a discouraging intensity. Even more distressing is the realization that long after the coronavirus pandemic has dissipated another epidemic

The Whole Thing: The Story of the Bible in Six Images by Jason English is a well-considered attempt to craft a single cohesive and coherent narrative from the Bible for individuals who may have been harmed by narratives more driven by shame, cultural power, or repression than the biblical narrative. From this perspective, the book’s