…. With a grateful heart, I have been reflecting on Peter Wehner’s article in the New York Times, “The Forgotten Radicalism of Jesus Christ,”…..
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Beloveds, “The great task of religion is to keep us fully awake, alert, and conscious….
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…. We continue to await with hope, peace and joy, now all part of our advent arsenal. Await the coming of the Incarnate One. And what better way to wait with anticipation and expectation, than to let our little children lead us…..
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…. I am excited to hear the wonderful voices of Pilgrim’s choir this Sunday. ….
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….This Sunday, December 6, although it is the first Sunday of December and would normally be worship in meeting mode, it is the 2nd Sunday of Advent and because we meeting-moded last Sunday, our platform will be webinar….
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Beloved Pilgrims, Did any of you have the opportunity to bask in our glorious sunset yesterday evening? The swaths of pink, red, orange and gold had our skies reminiscent of an Arizonian landscape…..
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The American Missionary Association grew out of an abolitionist committee called the Amistad committee……
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More Pilgrim dreams for stewardship.
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Let’s dream together of what Pilgrim can be….
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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…..
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Pilgrims, I am trying so hard to live into our stewardship and Advent theme of “we who dream.”….
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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…..
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….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…..
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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?….
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Pilgrims, It is with joy that I invite you to welcome our new Church Administrator, Traci Hathway, to Pilgrim…..
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…. 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…..
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….Returning to a peace pole has proven restorative as well. I can't wait to see the 20 or so that have been created…..
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Hi Pilgrims, What a week in what a year :( I write to you from Flat Rock….
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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…..
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..As people of faith, we are called to protect God’s creation. And, there ARE things that we can do.
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