This Sunday, the third of Advent, we light the candle of love. And I plan to talk about how love lives, moves and has its being among us as a community of faith. But let me lead up to
THE CANDLE OF PEACE
It seems ironic, lighting the candle of peace—the Second Advent candle—as headlines scream racial prejudice and people flood the streets, our cities and nation on edge. But maybe that is the best reason to light that fragile, fluttering worship light.
The Thanksgiving Boomerang
Do you find it harder to feel thankful and blessed than you did 20 years ago? And how happy and satisfied will you feel 20 years from now? Research is telling us that it has a lot to do with
Feed Me
I enjoy a healthy stream of articles and stories sent to me from church members. I can’t tell you how helpful and fertile that exchange is. When I wrote of the Higgs-Boson “God particle” two years ago in the
Dove Boxes
DOVE BOXES – Sunday, November 16, 2014: Doves will be winging their way into our Parish Hall, starting in November, so please be sure to pick out a green dove (financial assistance) or a white dove (food box donation)and
ALL SAINTS, REDUX
Last Sunday, introducing our lesson from Revelation, I described how persecuted the early church was. I said the book of Revelation, alarming to many of us, was comforting and reassuring to Christians back then. Long ago and far away, right?