 What I love about the United Methodist Church is that we embody that classic improv instruction of saying yes and. We know the value and primacy of Scripture, but we say yes and. We need tradition. We need reason. We need experience. We value bringing our emotions and our heart to the worship service, but we say yes and. We need our head and our intellect too. We love to sit in a ritual and traditional high church setting, but we also love the creativity and spontaneity of low church. At the Methodist Church, we say yes and to bring everything to the table. My hope for the United Methodist Church is that we can continue on our journey of being more diverse and more inclusive. We need more queer people. We need more people of color, and we need more women in power because those groups are going to lead us into the future. I'm currently serving here at Judson Memorial Church in New York City. At Judson, we like to say that artists and activists are our modern day prophets. They show us where we've been, they show us who we are, and they show us what we can become. So we're doing ministry in new ways here by making sure that artists and activists always have affordable event space. We host them for meetings, for rallies, for rehearsals, and performances so that we can hear their vital voices in our community.