Dear Friends, As kids we used to go hunting for snakes in the woods by turning over rotten logs; there were always a lot of bugs under them, and sometimes a snake or two.  When garter snakes slithered out we’d grab them by the tail and put them in a pail.

Dear Friends, Bill Bell, aka Charles W. Bell, New York Daily News Religion Editor and human-interest columnist, has retired.  In his closing column on Easter Sunday, he announced his retirement in a much more colorful way: “I’m putting the cap on my pen.”

Dear Friends; “The cancer is back.  It has metastasized.”

Dear Friends, The theme for this year’s every-member canvass is Be Bold.

Dear Friends, Thanks for your response to my comments about our Sunday service candle lighting.  The feedback was helpful.  I was moved by your sensitivity.  It’s a way of living our affirmation: ‘To seek the truth in love,’

Dear Friends, The sermon and service last Sunday was about The Wizard of Oz, and I came up with a two-word summary of the story: purposeful companionship. Dorothy and the friends she met on her journey along the Yellow Brick Road, the scarecrow, tin man and lion, were ‘off to see the Wizard’ hoping to […]

Dear Friends, In the film History Boys, one of the students is asked to define history. He says, “It’s just one bloody thing after another.”

Dear Friends, No doubt you’ve noticed that our new Associate Minister, Margie Allen, has become a powerful, effective, warm presence.

Dear Friends, We mark our lives by clocks and calendars; now the date tells us we’re another year older.

Dear Friends, The Westport Country Playhouse staged a production of A Christmas Carol, promising that it would be an annual event.  This year, one of the children in our church school, Luke Sauer, 6, played Tiny Tim.  He had more stage time than Tiny Tim usually has, and he was great.