Dear friends – Sunday is a special service – I hope you will join us. It combines two very important reminders. One is Thanksgiving....

Dear friends - I usually love experiencing new things. Tom and I like to travel, and we often plan our own trips and book our own...

Dear friends - On this Friday of election week, we sit with ambiguity in a way in which not all of us are comfortable. What is most clear...

Dear friends - With the upcoming election and our state of pandemic, we are (tritely - now more than ever) acutely aware of our diversity...

Dear friends - What a joy it has been all month long to celebrate your good stewardship and the meaningful ways River Glen is making a...

Dear friends - What a great joy Wednesday evening was! Thank you for dropping off boots and coats for Longwood as well as many cash...

Dear friends - This week marks the Feast of St. Francis. We don't celebrate saint feasts in the same way as our Catholic, Episcopal, and...

Dear friends - Thank you for your prayers, cards, and thoughts over the last two weeks. I'm ever mindful in these days of the continual...

With our new season of fall, enjoy two of these blessings from, "O Antiphons for Autumn," from Joyce Rupp's collection, The Circle of...

Dear friends - I'll be on vacation for the next two weeks. Vacation is always a reminder for gratitude for so many reasons. One is simply...

Dear friends - My parents have some apple trees in their front yard that they have to pay close attention to - a few times over the years...

Dear friends - My dad and I had tickets to a Cubs game this Sunday that I won in a raffle last January, operative word: had. It's a...

Dear friends – Our ruling elders were invited this past week to write a letter to the Session using a little bit of creativity, as if...

Dear friends - It was a great joy to have outdoor worship on Sunday evening. We could not have asked for better weather, and it was...

Dear friends - In the face of conflict, it's easy for us to ignore what's happening or be too overwhelmed to know what to do. In the...

Dear friends - Outside is the place to be these days, so we are looking forward to outdoor worship on Sunday, August 16. Typically, we...

Dear friends, Thank you for your excellent response to the survey concerning in-person worship. This insight helped the Session greatly...

Dear friends - Covid-19 is making for some real weird times. For the most part, everything fun about being a minister is pretty much...

Dear friends – Let's talk spiritual formation. Spiritual formation is how you are being formed more fully into Christ - to embody what it...

I'm more and more aware these days of the depth of grief we're experiencing in Covid-19, what we ministers have come...