Core Values

Core Value #1

HOW WE RELATE

See your neighbor as God’s beloved.

Treat each person like God is hiding inside them. In a mystery our faith invites us to practice, to welcome our neighbor with radical openness is to love God.

Core Value #2

HOW WE PRACTICE FAITH

Own the beautiful and messy tradition.

The Christian faith is wonderful, at times harmful, and strange either way. We don’t run from it, and we don’t romanticize it. We pray, wrestle honestly with Scripture, and rummage through the full tradition to find new life in it together.

Core Value #3

HOW WE THINK

Ask the extra question.

We travel light on assumptions. Taking on a beginner’s mind about people, our faith, or anything else that matters helps us to encounter them on their own terms.

Core Value #4

HOW WE WORSHIP

Act like beauty will save the world.

Beauty matters to God and makes us more human. So we savor the song, love the liturgy, and preserve the prairies. We protect beauty and do what we can to make more of it. It’s part of how God saves us from ourselves.

Core Value #5

HOW WE ACT

Care, then try doing something about it.

We lament and grieve, but we never choose numbness. We keep caring, keep praying, and keep finding ways to respond in hope. To believe another world is possible is the most Christian thing we do.