About Us

Here are some of the beliefs and ideas that animate us, inspire us and sustain us:

God is a community of one - Father, Son, and Spirit in an eternal dance of self-giving love.

What is God like? God is like Jesus. God has always been like Jesus. Jesus reveals who God is and what God is like. We didn’t always know this. But now we do.

Creation is good and beautiful but broken. History is messy and complex but headed somewhere.

God is putting everything back together - renewing, restoring, and reconciling all things.

The gospel is the good news that Jesus, the crucified and risen Messiah, is Lord. This good news is beautiful, radical, expansive, and subversive.

The kingdom of God is God’s loving, healing, rescuing reign, launched by Jesus on earth as in heaven.

Salvation is God rescuing, judging, and healing all creation. We experience this salvation and enter God’s kingdom by trusting Jesus. Then we join God in the renewal of all things.

The church is a community, a family, a movement. We are the church. 

The way of Jesus is the way of love, justice, freedom, inclusion, generosity. All truth is God’s truth. All beauty is God’s beauty. We celebrate art, music, and science as peace making, and creativity.

 The Bible is God’s story and our story, from Israel to the early church to us. We don’t just read the story or study the story. We live the story.

Faith is not the absence of doubt. It’s the presence of trust. Faith and doubt are not enemies. They’re dance partners.

God is throwing a party and everybody is invited. Everybody. Regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, education, mental or physical capacity, marital status, or socioeconomic background.

The future is full of possibilities, promise, and potential. In Jesus, God’s future has crashed into the present. We get to live that future here and now. 

What will we do with this one wild and precious life?

Our language has been inspired by many, including Nadia Bolz-Weber, Brian Zahnd, Rachel Held Evans, Rob Bell, Mary Oliver, Diana Butler Bass, M Jade Kaiser, Barbara Brown Taylor, Austen Hartke, Andrea Gibson, Shane Claiborne, NT Wright and others.  We are deeply grateful for their lives and their work.