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Pastor's Report - May 2022
You don't have to know me very long to know how I feel about charlatans and cons. You've all heard me rail against “cryptocurrency,” and...
Pastor's Note About Holy Week
Holy Week stands at the heart of our Christian story. Jesus, a religious radical, spoke for the poor and the oppressed, and called for a...
Pastor's Report - April 2022
With apologies to my vegetarian friends, I begin with a quote from a wise woman, a Unitarian Universalist physician, who told me thirty...
March 2022 - President's Message
“I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving... we must sail sometimes with...
March 2022 - Pastor's Message
When the UCC adopted the “God is still speaking” ad campaign in the early years of this century, we frequently used a quote from Gracie...


President's Message - Hospitality
I’ve been thinking a lot about hospitality lately, over these past six months since Mary Jane moved and I volunteered to be the building...


Park Church and the Community Kitchen
Volunteers from many area churches established the Community Kitchen (CK) in 1981. I have notebooks dating back to 1984 indicating The...


Advent: Anticipation and Preparation
For centuries in the Roman/Western religious tradition, Advent, the four-week liturgical season before Christmas, was considered...
On Monday, I was at the DMV
On Monday, I was at the DMV, doing the things one needs to do when you move to a new state, getting New York plates, a New York driver's...
I love sports. I hate sports.
Take the Olympics, now underway in Tokyo. The cost to host countries is enormous. I bristle at the idea that professional athletes...
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