Category: Pastors’ Letters

My dad never got a chance to go to college. After a short stint in the Navy, he started work at my grandfather’s small family business—a metal plating shop in …

The first Sunday of every month, we celebrate the sacrament of communion. It is a powerful ritual and one that communicates on many levels. I remember being a young boy …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …