We are constantly in motion. Our hearts are pumping steadily, moving blood throughout our veins and capillaries. Even at rest, we are in motion, our bodies carried with the daily revolution of the earth, itself navigating a celestial orbit around our sun. The universe, and all that is within it, is in motion, whether swift...
I always used to think time was a relative thing. When I was running late in college, I figured I could easily just turn my watch back 5 minutes, and when my teacher would reprimand me, I could tell them their watch is 5 minutes fast. Who’s to say one of us is right and...
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Jun 25, 2012 • Comments Closed When asked to participate in blogging, I said to myself “who has the time?” I’ve never blogged, and I never will! LOL! So here goes (I’ve already lost the first attempt by pressing the wrong button). I simply have to respond to the enormous inspiration I have received today from all of you and from...
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Jun 21, 2012 • Comments Closed This upcoming Monday, June 25, the 2012 Congregations Summer Seminar will host a hymnfest at Yale Divinity School’s Marquand Chapel. The event begins at 7:30pm, and is free and open to the public. Among the hymns to be sung is Isaac Watts’ “O God Our Help in Ages Past,” and guest organists James Abingdon and...
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Oct 11, 2011 • Comments Closed Prayer For the Bad Guys: A Memory of 9-11 It was bedtime. Patrick was 8-years-old, and I was tucking him in. We heard an airplane fly overhead. Any other night, we wouldn’t have paid it any attention, our house being in the flight path of Manchester airport. But there weren’t supposed to be any planes...
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Oct 5, 2011 • Comments Closed Take time to remember. Take time to recommit. On the 10th Anniversary of 9/11, the United Church of Santa Fe (New Mexico) encouraged Santa Feans to do both in a special service that Sunday morning. Throughout the service, music was central in enabling the congregation go deep, both into the past memories of that day ten...
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Oct 3, 2011 • Comments Closed Gloria or Requiem? Texts: Exodus 15:1b-11; Romans 14:1-12 (Gary W. Charles, Central Presbyterian Church, Atlanta, GA, 30318) “It was a time of great and exalting excitement. The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pistols...
St. Monica Catholic Community from Santa Monica, CA was one of the congregations chosen to participate in the first Congregations Project at Yale during the Summer of 2011. St. Monica is a vibrant, large Roman Catholic congregation on the westside of one of the largest urban metropolitan cities. The parish numbers some 9,000 households encompassing...
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Sep 13, 2011 • Comments Closed SECTS AND THE CITY: Drawing Urban Gen X / Y to Mainline Protestant Churches Hosted by Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 1218 W. Addison, Chicago Saturday, February 11, 2012 + 9:00 am – 3:30 pm Why this worship conference? Sects and the City, Holy Trinity Lutheran Church’s worship conference, began as a question: “In light of...
