We are incredibly excited to share with the Richmond Hill community that we have our new Co-Pastoral Director. After a nine-month search process, our Council this week extended a call to Rev. Katie Heishman to serve as our next Co-Pastoral Director, working alongside Rev. Dr. Lisa Johnson, our other Co-Pastoral Director. The residential community provided…
In Caste, Wilkerson contrasts the meaning attached to the Nazi memorials in Germany and confederate statues in America. Germans maintain a number of Holocaust monuments and concentration camp memorials, but their focus is on remembering and learning from the events. For 2021-2022, Koinonia will explore efforts in the U.S to suppress the truth of our nation’s…
The Amazing Praise is a collaborative, online 48-hour giving celebration of God and the transforming work being done in Jesus’ name across Richmond. It begins at noon on Tuesday, September 21, 2021 and concludes at noon on Thursday, September 23. Now in the sixth year of operation, the Amazing Praise is designed to provide a common…
Ministering in the Face of HIV/AIDS | Thursday, April 22, 7-830 pm on Zoom A Zoom conversation to guide church leaders who wish to establish ministries that serve people infected and/or affected by HIV/Aids. This will provide a faith-based framework for identifying the social & spiritual issues that can and must be addressed through ministry….
The Amazing Praise is a collaborative, online 48-hour giving celebration of God and the transforming work being done in Jesus’ name across Richmond. It begins at noon on Tuesday, September 22, 2020 and concludes at noon on Thursday, September 24. Now in the fifth year of operation, the Amazing Praise is designed to provide a common…
Learn the rhythms of grace Rapha (the Hebrew word to heal) is a seven-month course in contemplative healing prayer. It consists of three retreats and four (4) six-week sessions. The course begins in September 2019 and concludes in April 2020. Participants are required to read selected books and articles, journal, write reflection papers, meet with…
The Amazing Praise is a collaborative, online 48-hour giving celebration of God and the transforming work being done in Jesus’ name across Richmond. It ran from noon on Tuesday, September 24, 2019 and concluded at noon on Thursday, September 26. Here’s some of how we celebrated: While the official event has concluded, it is not…
Wilhelm Morgner, a German Expressionist painter, trained for the clergy, although he quickly turned to painting as his calling. His close identification with Jesus Christ manifested itself in works that expressed his powerful understanding of the Passion, exemplified here by his color-saturated vision of the Entry into Jerusalem. Sadly, he died a young man, one…
by Sheryl Johnson I don’t know when I came to realize that I’m a racist. Not the hood wearing, confederate flag waving kind, but the kind that doesn’t think twice about a photo voter ID law that just happens to disproportionately impact people of color, or the kind that looks a little more suspiciously at…
Settle into the Winter season with the worship style of Taizé on Tuesday, February 5. The service is contemplative and meditative in character, using short songs, repeated again and again in a candlelit chapel. We invite you to participate in our practice of Taizé which includes singing, prayer for Metropolitan Richmond, and a period of silence….