News & Updates

              WELCOME FROM HAYWOOD STREET: UPDATES: Congratulations to Atlas Branding, who’s Haywood Street logo design was chosen among 40,000 logos for the upcoming Logo Lounge Book 11!  This week, we thank the students of Vanderbilt who dedicated part of their spring break to helping care for the Haywood Street...

Responding in Relationship Sermon by Rev. Brian Combs, 2/24/2019 Redaction criticism is the study of editorial changes.  Scholarship that’s focused on how the biblical writers arranged, organized and even revised their reflections on God, sometimes well after the oral history was written down.  Some of the most cherished stories in scripture likely have redacted endings....

Dear Haywood St. Congregation and beyond, As the son of a Mexican, Spanish, and Indian mother, I was asked ten thousand times as a child, “what are you… black, brown, mixed, mulatto, mongrel, illegal, terrorist?” The only place free of interrogation was the Church. In Sunday school and worship, in youth group and summer camp,...

Reflections from Jill Gottenstrater   Q. Can you share a memory from Haywood Street’s very first year? Why do you think this memory has stayed with you?  A. I will never forget this day back in the very early days of Haywood Street. Brian was sharing a message of Jesus’ love from the front of the...