Words from Washington

I had dinner with friends last Wednesday night. Beth, one of the new folks at Mount Vernon Place , Nathan, one of our interns at the church...

Students from Georgetown Unive rsity gave the Mount Vernon Place congregation a tremendous gift on Saturday afternoon. Through a class call...

I have had a crash course in real estate development since arriving at Mount Vernon Place in the summer of 2005. Each week, I have learned s...

I was walking down 7th Street in Chinatown yesterday when a large banner caught my attention. The sidewalks were busy, and not many people ...

The 7:00 news has ended, and I have watched Brian Williams report for 30 solid minutes on today's tragedy at Virginia Tech. My heart is ...

It was quite the morning. I overslept as I had set my alarm for 6:15 p.m. and not 6:15 a.m. Oversleeping during the week is not a big deal. ...

I have heard a lot about callings this week. Our Wednesday Bible study group started a study on Jeremiah this week, and the prophet's c...

We celebrated Easter at Mount Vernon Place yesterday. Easter is my favorite Sunday of the entire year. It is a day on which we always get to...

I spent last weekend in New York City. Out of all of the cities in the world, New York is one of my favorites. It is certainly the most amaz...

It's been one of those weeks - one of those weeks when you experience the presence of God in real, abundant, vital, life-giving ways. W...

Two of our buildings at Mount Vernon Place are finally ready to come down. After a long process of negotiating with developers, the abateme...

The Garden of Eden that once appeared in a tree at Mount Vernon Place was removed long ago. When the Barbie doll figurines, the plastic s...

I took two pictures this week of signs hanging at the Mount Vernon Square / Convention Center Metro stop. One of the signs was hung in late ...

We have continued the process of cleaning out the church building as it appears that the renovation of the historic building is going to fi...

For the last several weeks, Mount Vernon Place has been undergoing a serious type of surgery. Like cancer that has overtaken an individuals ...

We crossed the street on Sunday morning. While I cross many streets throughout the week in downtown Washington, this crossing was a signif...

In the first week of seminary at Duke Divinity School , my professor of Old Testament read a book excerpt by W.E. Sangster: To have a cure o...

I started noticing a few things hanging from one of the trees on the lawn of the church a few weeks ago. I did not think much about it, howe...

We started a new study on last Sunday night on N.T. Wright’s new book, Simply Christian . Our discussion of the boo k began with the place f...