….Congregationalists were among the first Americans to take a stand against slavery. In 1700, the Rev. Samuel Sewall wrote the first anti-slavery pamphlet in America, "The Selling of Joseph.” This laid a foundation for the abolitionist movement a century later…..
Read MoreMy beloved Pilgrim, How is your heart this day? This week? As we enter into November? November?! 2020 just keeps spilling over the edges, doesn’t it?….
Read MorePilgrims, It is with joy that I invite you to welcome our new Church Administrator, Traci Hathway, to Pilgrim…..
Read More…. Pilgrims, Heavens, does our gospel text speak to me these days! If we've learned anything over these past eight months, it is that the many questions that are coming before us, are too complicated to be ethically answered with a single response, as demanded by Jesus' interlocutors…..
Read More….Returning to a peace pole has proven restorative as well. I can't wait to see the 20 or so that have been created…..
Read MoreHi Pilgrims, What a week in what a year :( I write to you from Flat Rock….
Read MoreYour grace while I keep my note to you brief, as bandwidth is in short supply this week. Thank you all who reached out to offer my family prayers and words of comfort as we traverse this grief-stricken landscape…..
Read More..As people of faith, we are called to protect God’s creation. And, there ARE things that we can do.
Read More….we will host both Holy Communion and a special Creation Justice Q&A prior to worship…..
Read MoreAlong with a few of our fellow Pilgrims, I have spent the last two days doing a deep dive with the Racial Equity Institute's (REI) Anti-Racism Training (part 1) through OAR (Organizing Against Racism)…..
Read More….During these trying times, Pilgrims have found ways to support each other and our larger community through our two special funds…..
Read More…the Census brings federal tax dollars to North Carolina at $16,000
Read More….I do hold in wonder that professional sports leagues, from the NBA to the WNBA, MLB and NSL have given us a glimpse of how to use our respective platforms to demand that we cannot act like life is normal when it isn't…..
Read More…. Under the creative guidance of Claudia Fulshaw, each Pilgrim (or Pilgrim family and/or friends) is invited to join in creating and planting their very own peace pole which we will collectively bless and display on Pilgrim’s campus World Communion Weekend (10/4)…..
Read More“The good news is that racist and antiracist are not fixed identities. We can be a racist one minute and an antiracist the next. What we say about race, what we do about race, in each moment, determines what -- not who -- we are.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist
….It feels bittersweet to share with you that Marty has decided, after 13 years of faithful service, to retire…..
Read More….One step your pastor has taken beyond our work in community is to participate in the Kaleidescope Institute summer workshop 2020…..
Read More….The month of July has brought daily meditation, high intensity workouts and yoga into our days…..
Read MoreJeff and Dee Sailstad joined the Pilgrim family on Sunday July 26. Welcome Jeff and Dee!
Read MoreTwo ideas that seem to be helping nurture connection for some I want to put out there for us to ponder whether, at this stage, six months in, they might also help us reconnect in deeper ways. One is to share in a communion in person at the Labyrinth—socially distanced, masked, no more than 10 people on a regular basis. Depending upon interest, we could offer more than one opportunity to break bread together. Would there be interest?…..
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