Greg Smith

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)

It's a highly effective and impactful use of your time. In my experience, it offers outsized results.

Jesus specialized in forming communities where people were deeply loved and deeply known. –Stephanie Spellers (Church Tomorrow, 2025)

This morning, thanks to 80+ amazing volunteers, Hope provided food to more than 365 families!
#eastdallas #volunteersmakeadifference

Agree or disagree? “The labeling of churches or particular believers as red Republicans, blue Democrats, or even purple Independents or moderates damages the ministry and saps the power of the gospel. –Jack Haberer (Swimming with the Sharks, 2025)

This Lent, do not make resolutions; do not promise God anything. Instead, practice being Christian. Practice the Kingdom of God in your life. –Diana Butler Bass (A Beautiful Year, 2025)

Thanks for this insight. Have long appreciated your wisdom. I, too, am hopeful. Not expecting a turnaround, but also not extinction - functionally or otherwise.

There is nothing timeless about the way we tend to understand gender in the United States today, and this idea does not actually come from nature. Many cultures have treated gender as a spectrum, much like all the other spectrums found in nature. --Dawne Moon & Theresa Tobin (Choosing Love, 2025)