Dear Friends, A couple of weeks ago Jan Braunle gave me an article from the Boston Globe about a group of architects that had recently gathered at Harvard. One of them was Victor Lundy, the architect of our buildings.

Dear Friends, Now we enter the challenging, changing, confusing holiday season.

Dear Friends, Margie’s installation was one of those high points for our congregation. She and her committee and team of helpers put together a moving service, a great reception and the dance that moved her from metaphor to dancing floor. Whew!

Dear Friends, At a clergy meeting in Bridgeport last week we were asked to pair up with someone we didn’t know and introduce ourselves, telling one another how we got into ministry and what keeps us in it—what feeds the spirit, if you will.

Dear Friends, I hope you’ll be able to help install Margie on October 29 at 4 p.m.

Dear Friends, Part of our annual recognition of the High Holy Days includes the Kol Kidre music on cello and organ.  Last year at this time Carlyn told me she’d like to learn it and play it at our Sunday service this year.  It’s a moving, challenging piece — having Carlyn play it last Sunday […]

Dear Friends, Did you notice the above date?  As I write, I recall the day. No doubt you remember where you were on that fateful morning five years ago.  We were shocked.  Stunned.

Dear Friends, I was out of town during the Democratic primary, so I got an absentee ballot. I wanted to vote against the war in Iraq.  I wanted to cast a vote against the havoc that Bush and Company have wreaked. I need to hang on to a slim thread of hope that we can […]

Dear Friends, I went to St. Louis for General Assembly.  The ministers meet for a couple of days before the lay delegates arrive—it was good to catch up with lots of old friends, though there’s inevitable news of illnesses and deaths.

Dear Friends, “To everything there is a season…” We’re easing into summer, the Sabbath season.