Rev. Frank Hall – Page 11

June 7, 2011 by Rev. Frank Hall

Dear Friends – June 6, 2011

Dear Friends, “Summertime and the livinʼis easy, fish are jumpinʼand the cotton is high.”

May 25, 2011 by Rev. Frank Hall

Religious Maturity – May 22, 2011

Last week we acknowledged the 50th anniversary of the marriage of our forebears – the Universalists and the Unitarians. A 50th birthday is the beginning of maturity in a person’s life, and one of the hallmarks of maturity is the ability to look at one’s past with a better understanding of how you got ‘from […]

May 24, 2011 by Rev. Frank Hall

Dear Friends – May 23, 2011

Dear Friends, It seems like a couple of years ago that my infant grandson, Alex, had a Service of Dedication of Parents and Children here, officiated by Herb Adams. It was actually twenty two years ago.

May 17, 2011 by Rev. Frank Hall

Finding God in the Silence – May 15, 2011

Preface: On this day fifty years ago our Unitarian and Universalist forebears formed a merger, creating the UUA. This merger was not an easy task. While they had a lot in common, there were some serious differences. Thomas Starr King, Unitarian minister in San Francisco during the Civil War, once quipped: “The Universalists believe that […]

May 10, 2011 by Rev. Frank Hall

Dear Friends – May 9, 2011

Dear Friends, We call it ‘the Boston trip.’ It’s a rite of passage for our eighth-grade Coming of Age class, a kind Hajj, the pilgrimage a Muslim is required to take to Mecca at least once. Nineteen pilgrims took a bus to Boston two weeks ago, on Friday morning, arriving at the Boston Public Garden […]

May 9, 2011 by Rev. Frank Hall

Forgiving Mothers – May 8, 2011 – Mother’s Day

Opening words: E. E. Cummings if there are any heavens my mother will(all by herself)haveone. It will not be a pansy heaven nora fragile heaven of lilies-of-the-valley butit will be a heaven of blackred roses my father will be(deep like a rosetall like a rose) standing near my (swaying over hersilent)with eyes which are really petals […]

May 2, 2011 by Rev. Frank Hall

Earth Day – May 1, 2011

Opening Words: The Pasture, Robert Frost I’m going out to clean the pasture spring; I’ll only stop to rake the leaves away (And wait to watch the water clear, I may): I sha’n’t be gone long. — You come too. I’m going out to fetch the little calf That’s standing by the mother. It’s so […]

May 1, 2011 by Rev. Frank Hall