Welcome to The Park Church,
Congregational,United Church of Christ

We have not always had the best PR. There was that whole thing at Salem, a footnote in history until Arthur Miller mapped it onto the Red...

I am sure none of us were surprised when Alexei Navalny died in a Russian gulag. After all, Vladimir Putin’s assassination squads had...

And the Oscar goes to... not “Barbie.” I saw “Barbie.” I liked it, thought it clever, and it certainly spoke powerful truths about...

A few days before Christmas, Linda at City Hall reached out to ask me what I wanted on my business cards. As a new City Council member,...

In Times Such as This The image shows up in my social media news feed almost every day in recent weeks, three boys with clothing and...

The Three Armies Problem At some point, most of you will have been presented with the Three Armies problem. In this exercise, you and...

Pumpkin Spice Communion I knew I needed to knock off some of the business world's sharp edges before beginning professional ministry, so...

There has been a lot of finger pointing. People have blamed clergy sex abuse scandals. They've blamed Sunday morning soccer. They've...

You would have good reason to question my judgment. Who signs on the be a minister in an age of terrifying church decline? And it has...

The UCC Historical Society has recognized the Afro-Christian Convention as a vital "fifth" stream in our theological tradition, joining...

White supremacists and Christian nationalists have bullied Target into pulling much of their Pride merchandise, and Anheuser-Busch InBev...

In the days after the 2016 presidential election, reports of hate crimes surged across the country as misogynists, white supremacists,...