Dear Friends, Thanks for responding so enthusiastically to the kick-off for our annual canvass last Sunday. While I’m not reluctant to talk openly about our financial needs I am careful; too much money talk can make you want to switch channels!

Dear Friends, While stopped at a traffic light on his way home on Friday, March 18, my dear friend, mentor and colleague, Herb Adams, suddenly died. He was one month shy of his 79th birthday.

Dear Friends, Spring is the season of youth. Newness. Regeneration. The world must have been created inSpring! We look forward to this season of renewal in proportion to the severity of the winter we’ve had, so this Spring is especially appreciated.

Dear Friends, For the past twelve years Randy Cohen has written a column in the New York Times Sunday Magazine called The Ethicist.

Dear Friends, At sunrise on April 19, 1775, on Lexington Green, the first shot rang out – ʻthe shot heard around the world,ʼ to begin the Revolutionary War.

Dear Friends, What a month!  Record-breaking snow accumulations matched by days of Arctic air.

Dear Friends, Theologians call is grace, a gift from God.  The word itself is from the Latin gr_tia, gr_tus – it is pleasing.  My son Jonathanʼs name meansʻ’gift from God.’ He and my daughter Susan were the first gifts that came to me as a real, immediate and lasting kind of grace.

Dear Friends, First, and foremost, a very big thank you for your contribution to the Ministers’ Discretionary Fund, and for the cards and holiday notes and year-end letters that occupy a conspicuous place on my office desk, and a prominent place in my heart.

Dear Friends, I remember getting a kaleidoscope one Christmas – I was five or six. I was dazzled by the colorful patterns and fascinated by the apparatus itself – a little tube with mirrors and multi-colored beads that toppled over one another to create new, endless patterns.

December 6, 2010 Reflecting on the weekend with Mark Morrison-Reed the word that comes readily to mind is moving. He stirred our emotions, challenged our thinking and encouraged us in our work.