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"Jesus stays with the travelers. He stays with those who are walking a road they don’t necessarily understand. He stays with them as they stop to rest and to refuel. He stays with them to continue the conversation."
This is the Jesus I& #39;m holding onto after #EvolvingFaith2020.
This is the Jesus I& #39;m holding onto after #EvolvingFaith2020.
I& #39;m tired and grateful—grateful for the weird, tech-enabled gathering; grateful for our speakers& #39; beautiful words; grateful that even though we all heard ideas that challenged us, that we might not have agreed with, we were together in our desire to seek God. #EvolvingFaith2020
So many people to thank. Let& #39;s start behind the scenes: @sharifawrites, who live-tweeted and did so much more; @heartandhome and @Jenna_DeWitt, who handled things on FB; Tara, Joy, Craig, Janine (who I don& #39;t think are on Twitter); and of course our ops partner, @bigchaff.
Also behind the scenes: Kiley, who handled registration, and Michael, our design mastermind. @StephTaitWrites continues to guide our accessibility efforts and expand our hearts for disabled belonging, and @aliciatcrosby once again tended our BIPoC space so beautifully.
Thanks to @afreshmind and @miheekimkort for leading our chaplains—our wonderful chaplains, who had no idea what they were getting into: Derrick Dawson, Eleanor Leech, @t_owens, Teresa Kim Pecinovsky, @chrispeters82, Lauren Peters, @_liminalspaces, @antoniaterrazas + @rozellahw.
Gratitude to our amazing ASL interpreters, Franklin Eaves and @slightersigns; to the platform/messaging wizardry of @joshhailey_ + @anna_skates; to the team at @PlywoodPeople; to Brian + @kirkpro, who led the brilliant production team that made everything gorgeous and smooth.
That production team—Kenny, Rebekah, Jay, David, Brian, Matt, Zack, Patrick, Claudia, @ShawndraOh, Christian, Ryan, John (I& #39;m sorry I don& #39;t know all your Twitter handles...)—brought us all together via bit and byte and made us all look and sound so good.
So, so much love to all our speakers, who poured themselves out: AJ Levine, BBT, @drchanequa, @revcjg, @gailsongbantum, @jenhatmaker, @katecbowler, @knikondeha, @revdrmonica, @sarcasticluther, @neichelleg, @duanalla, Rhina Ramos, @Sifill_LDF, @Tanya_Marlow + @wsvarghese. 
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I don& #39;t even have words for the beauty and richness of what our artists, @audreyassad, @prophiphop + @nicholenordeman, brought to our gathering. The incomparable @amenabee is a gorgeous poet, a force, and the best-ever emcee. And thanks to @TerryJ_all_day for his lovely collects.
Last but certainly, definitely not least: @sarahbessey, my dear sister and my treasured friend. I thank our God every single day for you. What an honor to be able to walk alongside you and to do this together. Thanks for rejecting all my attempts to quit.
(It occurs to me that if I really loved @sarahbessey, I would have said it& #39;s an "honour." Sorry.)
