Pilgrim worship on Sunday March 7 was a celebration of International Women’s Day — #Challenge to Lead…..
Read MoreMelinda Killenberg, a 40+ year Pilgrim member, helped get the Meals on Wheels program going in Durham many years ago…..
Read More….When I look back at this week's work, I find myself grateful. For each reminds me that Pilgrim is taking these necessary and important steps. And even if they feel small, they move us forward.
Read MoreHello Pilgrims, With joy, I want to share that our new church administrator, Franklin Hirsch, will be coming on board Tuesday, March 16…..
Read More….Thank you all who joined in our inaugural lenten worship service…..
Read MoreWe turn the corner, after Transfiguration Sunday, to our Lenten Journey…..
Read MoreMy beloved pilgrims, Let me offer a word that my letter will be solely utilitarian in nature this week and I ask that you read it until the end. There are a few items that I would like to bring to your prayerful attention in the hope that you feel invited to join in when/where you are able…..
Read MoreCreating a Pilgrim Pollinator Garden!
The Creation Justice team and friends worked together on Dec 5 and 12, 2020 to prep beds and plant bulbs as part of a larger pollinator garden project.
Ah, Pilgrim. Sometimes our greatest hopes and best laid plans go sideways unexpectedly…..
Read MoreI confess, beloved Pilgrims, I got very little done on Wednesday. Glued to multiple devices to bear witness to the unfolding of our country’s democratic transition….
Read More…We, the called and elected leaders of the United Church of Christ, heirs of a tradition rich with saints who have gone before us and whose courage in the struggle for justice and peace informs our own words and actions, rise in one voice, with clarity and unity to condemn the insurrection that took place at the United States Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021…..
Read MoreBeloved Community, How is your heart this week? This has been the leading question in many of the meetings I have joined in the aftermath of last week’s siege on the Capitol and its continuing unfolding, in DC and across our country…..
Read MoreBeloved Pilgrims, I was celebrating my home church’s unveiling of this banner yesterday while completing the text for this letter on Epiphany, just prior to the onset of the horrifying events that occurred in our nation’s Capitol….
Read More…. With a grateful heart, I have been reflecting on Peter Wehner’s article in the New York Times, “The Forgotten Radicalism of Jesus Christ,”…..
Read MoreBeloveds, “The great task of religion is to keep us fully awake, alert, and conscious….
Read More…. 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…..
Read More…. I am excited to hear the wonderful voices of Pilgrim’s choir this Sunday. ….
Read More….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….
Read MoreBeloved 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…..
Read MoreThe American Missionary Association grew out of an abolitionist committee called the Amistad committee……
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