Pilgrims, As unremarkable as it may seem from outside, I took a huge step last weekend that I have not been able to for a few years…..
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Members of the CJ team and the R+E team planted spring flowers….
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Easter 2022 was a wonderful celebration….
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THANKS TO EVERY PILGRIM WHO WALKED IN THE DURHAM CROP HUNGER WALK!!….
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Hello Pilgrims, Yesterday was my monthly clergy collective meeting where a group of Durham female lead pastors have gathered for the better part of my tenure…..
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Hello Pilgrims, We are a flurry today getting ready for the closing interactive worship conversation for our Lenten series tonight….
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Hello Pilgrims, Deep in the planning for Holy Week, I read a phrase that has me pondering. Lent is the season of mercy…..
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Hello Pilgrims, This week has been a bit fluid with HVAC installation (Yay Trustees!), illnes, and Durham CAN 3-day training that some of your core team (myself included) are attending…..
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Hello Pilgrims, Are you ready to spring forward on Sunday?….
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Auxiliary ended its spring drive for household goods for Housing for New Hope (www.housingfornewhope.org) on Monday, March ….
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….As we mark the first Sunday of Lent, we will do so as we did last year, celebrating International Women’s Day with Pilgrim’s Auxiliary leading us in worship…..
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Hello Pilgrims, Like you, I have been transfixed with horror at the unfolding invasion of Ukraine by Vladimir Putin, his inner circle, and the Russian military, wringing my heart and hands in both disbelief and deep concern for the Ukrainian people….
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On February 6, 2022, the Pilgrim congregation voted to accept the Pilgrim Confession and Covenant Against Racism that the team had worked on during the second half of 2021….
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Hello Pilgrims, As much as I try to keep our focus in the present, I want to direct your attention to Lent….
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Hello Pilgrims, How are you today? The sun is streaming through my front windows as I let its rays of warmth lift my spirits….
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….“I am thankful for a safe space where I can say the things I had to say in a space where it was received and processed not from a point of view of pity, but in a way that made people aware of what happens in the lives of black and brown people every day.”….
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….I’ve come to believe our vocation is not a singular experience, even if that has been the parlance of pastoral ministry. Rather, I now experience our calling(s) as a fractal–a never ending pattern, infinitely complex that is self-similar across different scales…..
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….I would not be transparent, nor authentic if I did not confess how weird it feels to enter the covenant of baptism without a congregation surrounding the Miguel family. The covenant, I always imagine, is a three-legged stool for MacKenzie upheld by God, the Migels, and their beloved community, Pilgrim, making promises to her that she will not begin to comprehend for months and years to come…..
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Hello Pilgrims singing in the rain, before freezing temperatures descend. I’m thinking you already know how this love letter begins… we are moving our Sunday service online again this week….
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Happy Epiphany my beloved Pilgrims, ….
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