This is a service I have been giving here at First Parish for over twenty years, usually on the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend, calling to mind some of the notable folks who died in the previous twelve months. But I was on sabbatical in May, so I put the service off until today, when [...]
Picture this scene: You go out to dine at a restaurant with three other people. You arrive together, you’re all seated, and a waitperson brings you all menus. Seated on your left is Mr. S. He looks over the menu and puts it down, having decided what he’s going to order. This is taken him [...]
When Nan Jahnke asked about the sixth graders coming to church one Sunday morning in October, maybe the 3rd, and staying for the whole service, I warned her that at that point I was thinking my sermon on the 3rd, today, would be on the notion of sacraments, and the larger notion of the sacred, [...]