Pastor’s Desk

FROM OUR INTERIM PASTOR – Finding Faith Today

Bryan Stone, an Associate Dean of Boston University School of Theology, is leading a national research project called “Finding Faith Today.”  His team is conducting basic research on how people come to faith as adults in the United States. The project has an interfaith component that will include people who have become adherents of all… Read more FROM OUR INTERIM PASTOR – Finding Faith Today

FROM OUR INTERIM PASTOR – EARTH DAY

I’ve been thinking lately about the Pledge of Nonviolence that I and many of us signed last August. To quickly review, we pledged to make peace with ourselves and our families, to respect self and others, to communicate better, to listen, to forgive, to play creatively, to be courageous. In so doing we will work… Read more FROM OUR INTERIM PASTOR – EARTH DAY

FROM OUR INTERIM PASTOR – A DISCIPLESHIP OF EQUALS

A fundamental contradiction became clear to all who participated in the Maundy Thursday worship service. The enactment of the Last Supper included the reading of 10 male parts, but many of the parts were read by women. The role of Judas was also played by a woman. Seeing women take roles assigned to men reminded… Read more FROM OUR INTERIM PASTOR – A DISCIPLESHIP OF EQUALS

FROM OUR INTERIM PASTOR … THE JOURNEY OF HOLY WEEK

Henri Nouwen reminds us in our Lenten Meditation that the Christian community is not a result of human efforts. God has called us, he writes, “out of slavery into freedom, out of sin into salvation, out of captivity into liberation. By our common call we recognize each other as brothers and sisters.” The Jewish community… Read more FROM OUR INTERIM PASTOR … THE JOURNEY OF HOLY WEEK