As you’ve heard, we’re MOVING our worship for Sunday, October 11 to the ISU Memorial Union, where we’ll join a number of Ames faith communities in a combined Sunday Pride worship service. Our schedule for that day at Collegiate/Wesley is as follows:...
This summer you heard a lot from me about the AMOS Convention on August 30 and our goal of showing up together. We had set an ambitious goal: 60 people from Collegiate/Wesley. We didn’t quite make it. We showed up with 50 people. And I am calling that a huge win,...
As our summer in the Psalms is about to end, I find myself thinking about Dangerous Songs, Richard Bruxvoort Colligan’s book that has been accompanying us through this season. Richard’s book, and the Psalms, are so rich; Pastor Jena and I couldn’t possibly...
I listen to a fair number of podcasts, and am really grateful for the ones that make me think, “I wish more people knew this.” So, for your listening pleasure—or maybe as an invitation to rethinking—I wanted to share a couple of these with you. First is Scene on...
You may have seen the news of big changes at Iowa Migrant Movement for Justice (IMMJ)–which some of you may remember is a successor organization to the longstanding United Methodist ministry called Justice for Our Neighbors (JFON). Collegiate Wesley has long...
