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May 15, 2012 by Rev. Frank Hall - Minister Emeritus

The Hand That Rocks the Cradle – May 13, 2012 – Mother’s Day

In Jewish tradition, your mother determines whether you are Jewish…if your mother is Jewish, you are Jewish. The point: our mothers determine so much about ourselves, which is where William Ross Wallace got the idea for his famous poem, or at least the famous line from a relatively obscure poem from which I got my […]

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May 8, 2012 by Rev. Frank Hall - Minister Emeritus

Awakening the Moral Sense – May 6, 2012

Henry Wordsworth Longfellow’s little poem has deep theological implications. You know the poem: There was a little girl Who had a little curl Right in the middle of her forehead; And when she was good, She was very, very good But when she was bad she was horrid. Why was she good – when she […]

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April 30, 2012 by Rev. Frank Hall - Minister Emeritus

Getting On in Years – April 29, 2012

Two weeks ago Larry Waterbury lit a candle after attending his grandson’s wedding. He said, “You know you’re getting old when you attend your grandson’s wedding, and realize that it’s his second marriage.” “A child of your child makes you grand; a child of your grandson makes you great!” Of course there’s a difference between […]

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April 24, 2012 by Rev. Frank Hall - Minister Emeritus

Civility – Where are the Models? – April 22, 2012

Henry David Thoreau, who often had tongue in cheek, quipped: “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” We look at the world through our own unique set of eyes. There are lots of types of eyes — beyond blue, brown and hazel. There are cynical eyes; suspicious eyes; loving eyes; naive and […]

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April 10, 2012 by Rev. Frank Hall - Minister Emeritus

In Praise of Sunrise – April 8, 2012 – Easter

Opening Words: The Gospel of Mark tells it this way:  “And very early on the first day of the week they went to the tomb when the sun had risen. And they were saying to one another, “Who will roll away the stone for us from the door of the tomb?” Looking up, they saw […]

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April 7, 2012 by Rev. Frank Hall - Minister Emeritus

Commitment to the Children – April 1, 2012

Virginia Satir wrote a book she called, “PEOPLE MAKING.” It’s about parenting and it’s about families and the importance of how we talk to one another, how we listen to one another, how we forgive one another, and how we continue to learn how to be in loving relationship with one another, not only in […]

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March 20, 2012 by Rev. Frank Hall - Minister Emeritus

The Heart of our Faith – March 18, 2012

In his wonderful novel, The Chosen, Chaim Potok has a Hasidic Rabbi, Reb Saunders, talk about his very intelligent son, Reuven, expressing his concern and his worry, like all parents worry. At one point he has the rabbi look up and talk directly to God, saying, “Master of the Universe, what have you done to me? […]

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March 13, 2012 by Rev. Frank Hall - Minister Emeritus

Lighten Up – March 11, 2012

Life is serious business. Take the matter of being born. It isn’t easy for any of the principal characters in the drama. Then there’s the ongoing struggle to grow up – learning to walk, and falling down again and again without throwing in the proverbial towel and crawling through life.  The challenge of learning to […]

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March 5, 2012 by Rev. Frank Hall - Minister Emeritus

Touched by a Poem – March 4, 2012

 Click here to listen to this sermon. We humans are a complicated lot – and we are learning more and more just how complicated we are. We have this thing we call ‘consciousness,’ awareness, or a degree of enlightenment, if you will. In a recent book titled Strangers to Ourselves, Timothy Wilson, who studies human consciousness, […]

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February 20, 2012 by Rev. Frank Hall - Minister Emeritus

Buddha: the Man, the Myth and the Message – February 19, 2012

Last week we looked at Jesus; the man, the myth, and the message. We know very little about the actual man, the historical Jesus; we know a lot about the myth, which is often presented as history, and the message is simple – be nice. Today we’ll look at the same three aspects of the […]

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