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Children’s Sunday 2017

May 22, 2017 / admin / Events

The Children’s Sunday Service, this year, was a wonderful event filled with smiles and fun!   Our 4th graders, Sophia O’Neil and Nicholas Turilli received their first Bibles from the church, and Nicholas Bergeron and Christopher Newton, our 10th graders, received confirmation! Click on any picture to see a bigger version. Photo credits: Robin Turilli (RT) and […]

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Essential

May 22, 2017 / admin / Sermons

… if we want you to be here so badly, why are we always frowning and telling you to hush?
Why?
Well, there’s a good reason for this. The best reason there is…

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Pathfinder — May 2017

May 19, 2017 / admin / Pathfinder, Uncategorized

I wonder what is going to happen? When we think about time, we tend to imagine it as a line. We imagine a line that starts with our birth, way back behind us, moves up to the present moment, and then extends out into the future in front of us. Our language reinforces this idea: we say things like, “back, when I was a kid…” or “I’m really looking forward to Christmas…”But there is something strange about this idea…

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05/14/17: Autumn Sonnet #3 (Sarton)

May 14, 2017 / admin / Poetry Corner

Autumn Sonnet #3       By May Sarton   I wake to gentle mist over the meadow The chilling atmosphere before sunrise Where half my world lies still asleep in shadow And half is touched awake as if by eyes. Sparse yellow leaves high in the air are struck To sudden flame as the first rays break […]

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Rock or Stone

May 14, 2017 / admin / Sermons

God has an intention for us.

But this intention is not perfectly defined for us. This intention contains mystery. It contains the invisible fifteenth stone.

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05/07/17: Summer Kitchen (Hall)

May 7, 2017 / admin / Poetry Corner, Uncategorized

Summer Kitchen               by Donald Hall In June’s high light she stood at the sink With a glass of wine, And listened for the bobolink, And crushed garlic in late sunshine. I watched her cooking, from my chair. She pressed her lips Together, reached for kitchenware, And tasted sauce from her fingertips. “It’s ready now. Come on,” […]

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The Tangerine of Now

May 7, 2017 / admin / Sermons

…the “Tangerine-of-future-plans” is a common Tangerine. It is by far the most common kind of Tangerine. But a “Tangerine-of-now” is a rare and wonderful tangerine. It is the holy tangerine.

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04/30/17: His Claim (Koyama)

April 30, 2017 / admin / Poetry Corner

His Claim                                 Mark Koyama   The sky darkened. We stood under the trees—my boy only nine years old— the yellow slicker and blue rubber boots of his childhood, bright, like a fragment of sun left behind at the edge […]

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Claimed

April 30, 2017 / admin / Sermons

Christianity, like all religions, quite easily becomes a tool for the powerful – but when this happens it is no longer Christianity – it is something else – a form of idolatry.
The essence of Christianity is not power. It is love.

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Earth Day Shenanigans

April 24, 2017 / admin / Events

 

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