Every Memorial Day weekend, when the country is commemorating those who have served in our military endeavors, for many years I have taken the chance to recognize many of the people who have died in the previous twelve months who contributed in a variety of ways to our times, not all of them positive, but [...]
Last week was Question and Answer Sunday, a long-standing if dubious tradition in which parishioners write questions on 3×5 cards and your professional staff - Erin, Polly and I — try to answer them off the top of our heads. This has been going on for almost thirty years.
By now, the congregation for that Sunday [...]
The church year nears its end - here it is May. Thank you all for your
continuing presence at our communal worship, which is the very heart of the
congregation’s existence. (True, without the blood of life generated in the
canvass, we wouldn’t be here at all; but the heart of it all, why we exist, is
the corporate [...]