From our friend Matt Ham, Pastor at Hope Community Church in Charlotte, NC. Brothers and sisters, before we pray together, we want to name what many in our city are feeling this week. Increased immigration enforcement has created real fear for many of our immigrant neighbors—fear for families, for children, for work, and for safety. […]

Dear friends, This month marks 100 days into Donald Trump’s return to the presidency. If you’ve felt like those 100 days have carried the emotional weight of a decade, you’re not alone. It’s not just presidential actions. Every day brings another news alert, another reason to feel that familiar knot tighten in the stomach. The […]

Like so many, I woke up the day after the election to what felt like a changed world. To lay my cards out, I was much more voting against the dangers of another Trump administration than out of enthusiastic embrace of a Harris agenda. Given my evaluation (which I recognize may or may not be shared by everyone […]

I like to be creative. I am most energized when I’m coming up with a fresh insight, a never before articulated metaphor, or building an original product. For many months, while I was developing The After Party course, writing the book with Nancy French, and catalyzing the production of Songs for The After Party, my […]