“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” by Rev. Jami Yandle

The words that follow this most famous William Faulkner quote are, “All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.” What does Faulkner have to tell us about how our church systems and culture holds us in place, how our Faith calls us forward, and how we balance tradition with the necessary evolution that comes with creating church in the 21st century?