by Lisa Stanger | Dec 7, 2013 | Real People: Stories from Our Members
As an introverted artist, I spend lots of time by myself.? I find the spiritual in many places ? especially outside ? and try to put some of the Spirit in my artwork. For me, this one-way communication is comfortable and comforting. I am also a wife and a mother....
by Lisa Stanger | Dec 4, 2013 | Real People: Stories from Our Members
Bishop John Shelby Spong?is who ? or what ? first brought me to First United.? Not literally. I mean, he didn?t pick me up in a Prius and bring me. But it was an announcement in the local paper promoting a visit to First United by Bishop Spong that first caught my...
by Lisa Stanger | Dec 1, 2013 | Real People: Stories from Our Members
If you had told me one day I?d be writing something about what has kept me attending a church I would have told you ?No way!? and yet here I am.? To know why this is significant I think it?s important to know a little about me and the path that lead me here.? My...
by Lisa Stanger | Nov 21, 2013 | Real People: Stories from Our Members
Let me introduce myself. My name is Amber. I am a wife, a mother, a friend, an animal lover, an avid crafter, an Instructional Specialist? I identify myself as so many things, but one thing I still have difficulty calling myself is a Christian. My family and I first...
by Lisa Stanger | Nov 18, 2013 | Real People: Stories from Our Members
I?ve had a long (twenty years) spiritual journey before I found First United. ?Before returning to Bloomington fifteen years ago, I lived in Cincinnati where I worked at Memorial Library at Xavier University.? It is a Jesuit Catholic university where all are welcomed...
