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….Coming away from Durham’s Religious Roundtable on Wednesday where city and county officials implored us to use our pulpits to advocate caution, restraint, re-imagining for the Thanksgiving and Christmas seasons, so we can gather next year--all of us…..

Pilgrims, I am trying so hard to live into our stewardship and Advent theme of “we who dream.”….

Pilgrims, I write this letter on Wednesday, not knowing who will be our next president. Kai and I have pledged to not tip into despair with every breaking headline. The few things I do know, though, are sobering…..

My 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?….

Pilgrims, It is with joy that I invite you to welcome our new Church Administrator, Traci Hathway, to Pilgrim…..

…. 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…..

….Returning to a peace pole has proven restorative as well. I can't wait to see the 20 or so that have been created…..

Your 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…..

….we will host both Holy Communion and a special Creation Justice Q&A prior to worship…..

Along 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)…..

….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…..

…. 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)…..