Pastoral Message | April 2021
On Easter Sunday, our Book of Common Worship offers this prayer of adoration: Glory to you, O God: you have won victory over death, raising Jesus from the grave and …
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Category: Pastors’ Letters
Pastoral Message | March 2021
In a recent issue of Presbyterian Outlook, the writer Johari Jabir told about a conversation with a beloved neighbor of his, a man simply known as Papa Lee. He was …
Pastoral Message | February 2021
If you ever think you can’t make a difference, or that your input into a conversation doesn’t matter, just remember Diane Hartley. The Citicorp building in New York City opened …
Pastoral Message | January 2021
In this day and age of satellites able to read from outer space the date on a dime, or Google Maps seemingly able to show us any place in the …
Pastoral Message | December 2020
Let me begin with a wonderful quote from a recent newspaper article by Ian Corbin. “The anthropologist Margaret Mead was once asked to identify the earliest material sign of human …
Pastoral Message | November 2020
So many things are now upon us, just because we’ve entered the month of November. Although I’m composing this essay in mid-October, you will be reading it around the time …
Pastoral Message | October 2020
The month of October is usually associated with cooler weather and falling leaves, but for our church right now, it is definitely a place of increased activity and sprouts of …
Pastoral Message | September 2020
When in recent history has there been a time when so much that we have taken for granted is now called into question? Suddenly we don’t travel; we don’t visit …
Pastoral Message | August 2020
“We walk by faith, not by sight”—2 Corinthians 5:7. It’s a short, familiar verse and upon reflection, it is a very true statement. There are many times in our lives …
Pastoral Message | July 2020
The journalist Leslie Jamison recently wrote an essay that included these lines: A few years into sobriety, I went to a potluck where no one ate or drank anything. Half …