Please join us Sunday after coffee hour for our Lenten Study, a book study and discussion of The Last Week by Borg & Crossan, chapters 4 & 5. Bring your thoughts, questions, and comments. See you there!
One of the trends that characterize the last 40 years of religious life in the United States is the decline in mainline denominations. In order to understand why that is important one has to understand what a denomination is and what purpose they serve. Mainline Protestant denominations are autonomous branches of the Christian Communion such…
DetailsLots of invisible changes. We have moved site hosting from SiteGround to Cloudways due to cost increase at SG. I had initially hoped to host in an “end user” account at DreamHost but lack of staging capability and general slowness were non-starters. So we are once again in a site targeted toward a reseller. So…
DetailsClerk of Session I grew up in the Presbyterian Church. But, like most teenagers, I stopped attending in high school. In 1985, my parents started attending St. Andrew’s and not long after that, I started attending. Soon we were on committees – Dad was on Buildings & Grounds, Mom was moderator of the Deacons, and…
DetailsTonight the weather is forecast to be cold and rainy. It will be a challenge for many to get off the couch and leave the warm house to come to church and hear about…well, ashes. For some, Ash Wednesday is a perplexing service. Why would you want to hear the pastor pronounce: “you are dust…
DetailsThose who say, ‘I love God’, and hate their brothers or sisters, are liars; for those who do not love a brother or sister whom they have seen, cannot love God whom they have not seen. – 1 John 4:20 In 2016 I started training as a conflict mediator. I really enjoyed the work and…
DetailsMigrated web site from SiteGround to DreamHost tonight – actually site was already migrated here, just needed to update DNS, then enable UpDraft Backups, WordFence security, added Google Analytics tag this time around rather than Matomo. Trying to do w/o JetPack.
In my earlier life, when I worked for a university, one of my side jobs was as a freelance academic editor. I specialized in working with non-native English speakers, helping them translate their very technical language into something that made sense to an English speaking audience. It was fascinating work. Not only did I learn…
DetailsThis is the month in which we think of Valentines and romantic love. But there are other kinds of love, too. There is love of family, love in friendships, and the most important kind of love – agape. Agape love is God’s unconditional love for everyone, and our human efforts to show love to all.…
Details‘If another member of the church sins against you, go and point out the fault when the two of you are alone. If the member listens to you, you have regained that one. But if you are not listened to, take one or two others along with you, so that every word may be confirmed…
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