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May I Help you?

October 21, 2018 / admin / Sermons

… there is at least one virtue to this process — this process of writing a sermon in the middle of living life.
When I do this, I can grab things almost as they happen.

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Of Religion And The Phillips Head Screwdriver

October 14, 2018 / admin / Sermons

To be alive is to be unpredictable.
For a living thing, purpose is not a single pre-ordained thing, like fastening two boards together.
Every time we take a living thing and limit its nature to a singular purpose, we oppress it.

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Are Any Among you Suffering?

October 7, 2018 / admin / Sermons

When James (whoever he was) wrote the letter, it is likely that he had very little confidence that his words would ever make it to any of the communities of the faithful to which it was addressed…
Nevertheless, he wrote it.

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A Cup of Water to Drink

September 30, 2018 / admin / Sermons

In this generation that its awake to the many ways that people can love, and the many ways that people can experience gender…
Are we going to interpret the gospel in a way that we proposes that we hate our own bodies? I say no!

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Sacred Trust

September 2, 2018 / admin / Sermons

I’ve been listening to Walt Whitman in the car.

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Hati Hati!

August 19, 2018 / admin / Sermons

Somewhere, in the middle of that perilous gauntlet, I spoke up from the backseat, where I was squashed up against the cliff-side window: “What does Hati Hati! mean?”

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Come Away

July 22, 2018 / admin / Sermons

Sometimes we must remove ourselves from ourselves, in order to learn about ourselves.

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A Plumb Line

July 16, 2018 / admin / Sermons

This “true” is simple.
This “true” is before us at all times.
This “true” is as pervasive as the gravity that holds us to the earth.

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Take Nothing

July 14, 2018 / admin / Sermons

Go out… but don’t take anything with you…
Nothing at all.
This is what Jesus tells his disciples to do.

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UCJ, New Home for Friendly Meals!

July 14, 2018 / admin / Announcements

The United Church of Jaffrey is proud to announce that our Parish Hall is the new home for the Home Healthcare, Hospice and Community Service (HCS) weekday community lunch program.  See this article in the Ledger-Transcript

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