If your faith in the one who proclaims freedom for prisoners has led you to question prison and incarceration itself - and especially if you also preach - The Abolition Lectionary is for you.

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Here's what my friend James and I (mostly James) picked from the church community garden today. Plenty more tomatoes and hot peppers are on the way, and we're starting to plan for Fall.

Today's harvest from our community garden was mostly lettuce with cucumbers, tomatoes, and peppers, all of which will feed people in need of healthy food today.

Continued growth in our church community garden.

#BeUMC

We picked beans and cucumbers in our church garden this week. Many of us are food insecure, but today the people in our community will enjoy fresh vegetables. I may have sampled some beans off the vine.

It was a long journey, but this weekend I was ordained as a deacon in full connection in the @unitedmethodist.bsky.social

We're beginning to see some growth in our church community gardens.

As a pastor at a faith community among people who are unhoused or experiencing other forms of poverty, my role lately is mostly gardening. Today we finished the third raised bed in our community garden. Soon comes the fun part of planting. #BeUMC #Gardening

In the coming months, we'll plant vegetables, herbs, and some flowers. But there's already an abundance of grace, joy, hope, and community growing here.

And not only that, but we're adding new raised bed gardens. We started building and preparing those this week. The whole faith community helped.

With support from the Western North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church (@unitedmethodist.bsky.social), we're able to replenish the soil to restore the original garden.

I'm a pastor at a church among people who are unhoused. Several years ago we planted a small community garden, but last fall Hurricane Helene destroyed it, filling it with mud. This spring, we're renewing the garden...

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