Bill Boggs, Broad Street’s Director of Music Ministry, grew up on the west side of Columbus. He and his family attended Westminster Presbyterian Church on Schoolhouse Lane. On Sundays, as worship concluded with the postlude, young Bill would hurry over to sit next to Charles, the church organist, to watch him play. Later, during [...]
During this strange and unpredictable year, Broad Street’s middle and high schoolers have been attending a Youth Group that looks a little different than normal. As we’ve gathered outside six feet apart, our youth have been teaching us fun and unique ways to stay connected during these isolating times. Wearing masks, each week we share [...]
Somewhere along the line, curiosity got a bad reputation. Curiosity killed the cat. Curiosity led Pandora to open a box full of misery. But, I think this is a good time to embrace curiosity. Curiosity, I would argue is an excellent antidote to uncertainty and fear. Celeste Ng is a novelist who wrote Little Fires [...]
Last Tuesday was the autumnal equinox, one of two moments in the year when the Sun is exactly above the Equator, and day and night are of equal length. Summer has now given way to Fall, reminding us of Robert Frost’s poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay.” Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue [...]
There is a corner of my living room that I have decorated in dedication to Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Why do I honor her in this way? Quite simply, her life and her work created room for my life and work. Her life and work created changes in our systems and structures that translated into a [...]
At home we have a quote on our refrigerator: “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” It is thought to have been written by Scottish minister and author John Watson under his pen name, Ian MacLaren. Watson died in 1907. Regardless of who wrote it, it rings true. These days, [...]
That’s what we are in right now when it comes to the pandemic. If the pandemic is a three-day event, we are definitely in Day 2. That’s the insight shared by Brené Brown in her most recent podcast. She talks about how, in every three-day workshop that she has ever led, the hardest part to [...]
I am a big fan of Kate Bowler and her podcast Everything Happens. This is how she began a recent episode: "We know instinctively that life is a treadmill. Time is passing. People wanted to hear back to that e-mail. Weren’t you supposed to get groceries? Why aren’t the dishes done? Did you [...]
