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Vox Populi, Vox Deum

Sunday, March 1st, 2009

Vox Populi, Vox Deum
a sermon delivered at the First Parish in Wayland, Massachusetts
Sunday, March 1, 2009
by the Reverend Dr. Deborah J. Pope-Lance
Let me say first how grateful I am for the opportunity to be with you, to worship with you, this morning. The chance to preach in this fine pulpit, to preach with you comes [...]

Things That Go Bump In The Night

Sunday, October 31st, 1999

I noticed it last year and the year before but it has gotten worse. Entirely out of hand, gross, bizarre and down right morbid: Halloween decorations and costumes. Halloween used to be marked with a carefully carved pumpkin on their front steps. Its flickering candle fearlessly held back the darkening cold of impending winter.
These days [...]