Dear Friends, Winter turns to spring. “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul…”

Dear Friends, In 1983 I traveled to Central America to see for myself what was happening in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala. Our government was involved militarily in those countries, and I heard a sermon about the good things the Sandinistas were doing, and the terrible things our government was doing. I was disturbed. The […]

Dear Friends, Last week fifteen of us sat in a circle downstairs in the new chapel. It was my first opportunity to put that new space to one of its uses-adult education.

Dear Friends, Marion Visel will be ordained this Sunday morning. The Service of Ordination will begin at 11 a.m. and will be followed by a reception.

Dear Friends, Nick Paige was 18 when his life ended in a tragic automobile accident on December 22; ‘the darkest evening of the year,’ as Robert Frost put it in his most well-known poem.

Dear Friends, Carlyn’s question lingers, as any good question does: “Frank, is Christmas a religious holiday?” she asked.

Dear Friends, When I was in Transylvania the summer before last, visiting our partner church in Alsoboldogfalva, I took some photographs of the repairs that were desperately needed on their 200 year old church. Stucco was crumbling on the outside walls and steeple, the metal steeple roof needed work, and so forth. Last week my […]

Dear Friends, Carlyn was sitting next to me reading her American Girl magazine. The story was about a Chinese girl who had been adopted by an American family.

Dear Friends, Back in the mid-70’s I worked to elect Jack Mendelsohn to the office of president of our association. Jack had a significant influence on my journey into Unitarianism and then into the ministry.