For the last Sunday of the month, September 24th, we will be settled into our two-service, two-RE routine, and will be finishing up our playing with the metaphor/image of the bowl.  Rev. Wik will be preaching, and our choir will once again sing.  [Remember:  our choir rehearses in the sanctuary on Thursday evenings, starting at […]

September 17th will be the first Sunday on which we again have two Sunday services (and two religious education programs for our children and youth).  Worship and Religious Education will begin at 9:15 and 11:15, and Rev. Wik will be preaching.  [Our Social Action Collection will go to support PACEM – People and Congregations Engaged […]

On Sunday, September 10, 2017, the congregation I serve celebrated its annual Balloon Sunday.  We heard the story we called “Grandmother’s Courage,” and my reflections were an exploration of its message.  (Although the story is not included in this post, I think the lessons are clear even without knowing it.) In seminary I was taught […]

I have always loved the story Leia just read.  I first heard it years and years ago, and it touched me then.  All these years later it continues to move me. One of the reasons I so love that story is because I am that pot with a crack in it.  I know only two […]