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Book Description Legacy Church has begun to partner with other churches in our city to address needs that are impossible to meet without the cooperation of other churches . For example, on April 27 and 28 , we will join seven other churches to partner with the City of Plano in order to serve our community. We call it Community Impact Weekend .If you live in the Plano area, please feel free to join us. You can sign up to serve here . Another aspect of partnering with the Big "C" Church to meet needs in the name of Jesus, is creating a dialogue around how our faith intersects our public lives . In order to start such a dialogue, three pastors and three churches have joined together to discuss this important topic. Father Bruce Bradley, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Community , Rev. Dr. David Batchelder, West Plano Presbyterian Church , and I will host community dialogues at the three churches around the topic raised in the book, Christians and the Common ...

Time Magazine's Cover I talk sometimes about my dual citizenship: I am a natural-born citizen of the United States of America , and I am an adopted child of God through Jesus, the Christ, and, therefore, a citizen of the Kingdom of God . Sometimes my loyalties to those kingdoms clash. This was the case Sunday night when the world heard about the "killing" of Osama bin Laden. As a citizen of the United States I cheered for the "justice" that was served our nation's Public Enemy Number One. I wanted to be in Times Square , Ground Zero , or outside the White House to cheer with my fellow citizens for the demise of one who brought so much suffering and death to our country.   I was proud of our leaders who never gave up on tracking him down and for the Navy Seal who served the kind of retribution the rest of the world would understand with a "double tap" to the head and chest of the leader of Al Qaeda . As I watched the nation rejoice ...

This past Saturday members from Legacy Church joined members from St. Elizabeth Seton Catholic Community , Collin Creek Community Church , West Plano Presbyterian Church , and over 900 others for the Seton Soles 5K run/walk. 250 volunteers provided support and encouragement to all who participated. The purpose of the run/walk was to raise funds for the Monsignor Henry V. Petter Endowment Fund , which exists to support "work in outreach and justice" in Plano and Collin County. Henry Petter has served as a priest at St. Elizabeth Seton for almost twenty years, and he is a runner. He will retire in the near future, and he wanted his legacy to be something that dealt with the systemic issues that oppress and exclude people from the necessities of life . The church knew this and created the endowment in his name and the run to raise the funds. Two things about the event please and challenge me . The first was, as Blair Richie of CCCC said Saturday morning, getting Catholi...