Greg Smith

Miracles and revolutions begin with holy encounters. –John Dominic Crossan & Michael Okinczyc-Cruz (Jesus and Justice, 2026)

Rain or shine, Hope shows up. ☔ Today we provided nutritious food to 350 families. Grateful for the volunteers who made it happen!

Most of the New Testament is a collection of simple texts written for simple people. I love it for that. –Miroslav Volf (Glimmerings, 2026)

Humans will keep evolving, but we won’t outgrow our need for community. –Stephanie Spellers (Church Tomorrow, 2025)

Congrats @ryanburge.bsky.social! The Vanishing Church: How the Hollowing Out of Moderate Congregations is Hurting Democracy, Faith, and Us is the first book in 2026 to receive 5+ stars from So What Faith! - sowhatfaith.com/2026/03/04/g...

Check out So What Faith's Recommended Reads for March, including volumes by Ryan Burge, Kevin Nye, Leah Marone, Jennifer Garcia Bashaw and Aaron Higashi - sowhatfaith.com/2026/03/04/g... #bookrecommendations

Seeking the common good through the local practice of neighbor love is messy and complicated work. –Amar D. Peterman (Christian Century, March 2026)

If there’s anything the dozens of Nones and Dones I met agree on, it’s this: Churches too often foster rigid attitudes toward belief, structure, labels, and/or practice, and they need to learn to change or prepare to die. –Stephanie Spellers (Church Tomorrow, 2025)

Trust begins to disappear within a free society when we substitute personal interest for the public good. –Peter W. Marty (Christian Century, March 2026)

Jesus modeled for us how we are to be collaborators with God and with one another in the building of God’s Reign on Earth. Each and every one of us. –John Dominic Crossan & Michael Okinczyc-Cruz (Jesus and Justice, 2026)

How many of these 11 churches do you recognize? 👀
Did we meet at one along the way?
(Note: These are churches I have served or am serving in Texas and Florida)

. . . we need a fierce, strategic emphasis on Jesus rather than a particular church. Most denominational distinctions mean little to people outside that group’s fold . . . –Stephanie Spellers (Church Tomorrow, 2025)

🚨 NEWSFLASH! 🚨
I’m excited to share that I have been chosen to serve as Interim Pastor of First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), located in the heart of downtown Fort Worth -the oldest continually operating church in the city. Note: I will continue to serve as CEO of White Rock Center of Hope

If we want to build a world that is more just, equitable, and compassionate, we must follow Jesus’ teachings and example. –John Dominic Crossan & Michael Okinczyc-Cruz (Jesus and Justice, 2026)

Date night in Oklahoma City

Easter can only be experienced, never defined. –Diana Butler Bass (A Beautiful Year, 2025)

Plenty of the church’s wounds are self-inflicted. –Stephanie Spellers (Church Tomorrow, 2025)

I believe the road to the future church winds through terrain best known by nonreligious younger Americans. –Stephanie Spellers (Church Tomorrow, 2025)

Today’s message?
It’s on the shirt.

Pentecost was far more than a supernatural event, a conversion sermon, and a mass baptism. It was a political dagger aimed at the Roman Empire . . . –Diana Butler Bass (A Beautiful Year, 2025)

Jesus is the incarnation of God’s limitless love. –Terri Hord Owens (Staying at the Table, 2026)

Churches all around are becoming less of what they once were, largely becoming pawns in the wars and seductions of raw secular, political powers, as well as emotional exploitation. –Jack Haberer (Swimming with the Sharks, 2025)

People who say “keep politics out of the pulpit” don’t understand that this is the ground on which we must now minister and lead in Jesus’s name. –Stephanie Spellers (Church Tomorrow, 2025)

Today’s to-do: ✔ Vote
Don’t sit this one out.

Jesus was that favorite teacher whose enthusiasm for the subject piqued your curiosity, driving you to pursue that field of study that ultimately defined the career you would pursue. –Jack Haberer (Swimming with the Sharks, 2025)

I’m calling a truce in the resurrection wars. –Diana Butler Bass (A Beautiful Year, 2025)

Mainline churches have by and large ceded Jesus and Christianity to our conservative counterparts. –Stephanie Spellers (Church Tomorrow, 2025)

Hope in Action: How the East Dallas Community Provides Food to Neighbors in Need - a modern day version of the Feeding of the 5,000 that happens twice a month, every month - sowhatfaith.com/2026/02/22/h... #eastdallas

Now is the time for worship at Cathedral of Hope UCC in Dallas #cohdallas #viewfromthepew

Jesus was a prolific teacher of wisdom, faith, inspiration, and truth. –Jack Haberer (Swimming with the Sharks, 2025)