Dear Hope Friends,Our staff team and leadership council chair - Anish, Isaac, Kevin, Mary, Sophie, and I - just returned from Rise, a leadership conference at the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection. Resurrection is 20,000+ multi-site church in the Kansas City area passionate about providing resources for inclusive and mainline churches open to growing! Hey that's us! Between worship, grea...

Dear People of Hope,Isn't HOPE and people who practice it exactly what is needed right now!? I suppose none of us are Superman, but we ARE all part of bringing goodness into this world! Some days that feels harder than others, maybe today is easier? Last week I referenced the work of sociologist Robert Putnam who has studied for decades that offering hope and goodness into communities is significa...