Greetings Pilgrims, My week took a turn when my beloved and elderly dog Luna re-injured her leg on Memorial Day as she was startled by another canine as we exited the house for an evening constitutional….
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Happy Graduation to those Pilgrims who are taking (or have taken) this important step in their educational journey….
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On May 19, in Durham Central Park, Pilgrims joined with members of 10 congregations who are part of the Mount Level Community Partnership For Racial Justice to celebrate Pentecost in worship…..
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Happy Pentecost Pilgrims… Sunday is our Pentecost celebration and one of the life lessons I learned with my previous ministry setting was the dance between theological meaning and church praxis….
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We cannot merely pray to you, O God, to end war;….
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Hi Pilgrims… We are in for some pretty dense Sundays in the weeks to come–theologically, ecclesiologically, liturgically….
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Greetings Pilgrims, A recent daily meditation from Episcopal priest and educator Alice Updike Scannell (found via Richard Rohr of course :)) spoke to me, as they often do, and made me think of the number of serious health issues many Pilgrim families are facing…
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Dearly Beloved, In case you’re channeling Prince with me, as a huge fan… and agree with his belief that gathering together helps us get through this thing called life….
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Pilgrim Changes Some Endowment Investments to Better Reflect Faith Covenants…
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Pilgrims, Hopefully by now you know this coming Sunday is going to look and feel a bit different–our way of honoring Earth Day by being good stewards to the campus entrusted to our care….
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Pilgrims, Sunday we will welcome some new and some returning folks to Pilgrim with our new member celebration. Rosalie Edmonds, Kris Fajhe, and Kim Theobald have discerned that Pilgrim feels right to be their church home….
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Pilgrims, April showers feel like they are coming in with a roar this week….
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On April 7, we said farewell and thank you so much! to Jada Poteat, our Interim Music Director…..
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Pilgrims, As I race after a two and a half year old energetic toddler this week, I take a quiet moment during nap time to pause and thank everyone who made our Holy Week and Easter so remarkable….
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Early Easter morning we said to each other, “Today we know that love has won….
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Pilgrims, I write this letter to you on Maundy Thursday. A day filled with emotion, intimacy, heartbreak….
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Pilgrims, I must admit I have found it challenging to hold our celebration and participation in Crop Walk with our entry into Holy Week on Palm/Passion Sunday….
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Pilgrims, A part of me was grateful our gospel text ended where it did last week–with Peter claiming Jesus as Messiah and Jesus naming Peter as the foundation for the church.
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Pilgrims, I’ve been wrestling this week with Jesus’ question to the disciples from our gospel text for Sunday. After exploring the word on the street about who people think he is, he turns and asks Peter, “and who do you say that I am?”….
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Greetings Pilgrims! With the last Sunday of Black History month nearly here I wanted to offer up this excerpt from a sermon from Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III, “The Gospel and the Blues.” …
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