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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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Pathfinder — April 2017

April 19, 2017 / admin / Pathfinder, Uncategorized

Go well.Stay well… Every Tuesday during Lent, about ten of us have been meeting to discuss the book Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton.The book takes place in South Africa during the height of the apartheid era, and involves an oldman’s search for his lost son.

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Pathfinder – March 2017

March 19, 2017 / admin / Pathfinder, Uncategorized

We had a lovely service this morning(Feb. 19), and I am feeling good. The church received some good press last week from the Keene Sentinel, and I was delighted to see some new faces in the pews…

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Pathfinder – February 2017

February 19, 2017 / admin / Pathfinder, Uncategorized

The great poet, translator, and pastor of 29 years, Reverend Eugene Peterson was once asked if he had any advice for people trying to choose a church to go to. He replied: “…go to the closest church where you live, and the smallest. And if after six months it’s just not working, go to the next smallest.”…

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Pathfinder – January 2017

January 1, 2017 / admin / Pathfinder

One of the more puzzling characters in the Advent story is old Zechariah. Remember him? A priest in the temple, the husband of Elizabeth, and, most famously, the father of John the Baptist, Zechariah shows up in the first chapter of the Gospel of Luke. But all does not go smoothly for the old man…

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