Updated November 28. One of my favorite Christmas carols is one that Ryan introduced to me a few years back at a Christmas Comfort service: Come Darkness, Come Light – written and performed by Mary Chapin Carpenter. It’s really more of an Advent, than a Christmas Carol. It deeply echoes this solstice season we are…
For email posts, click here to watch. Today is the first Sunday of Advent. Advent means “coming.” These are the four Sundays, the 24 days we wait expectantly for Christmas. Waiting for Jesus to be born in Bethlehem. Waiting for Christ to come again. In Advent the days are shorter and the nights are longer.…
Read more Good Night Dark. Hello Light. (A Children’s Homily)
For email posts, click here to watch online. I have three children all grown up and as old as your parents! Zach is a filmmaker who lives in Brooklyn. Colleen works for Meals on Wheels America and lives in Washington, D.C., our family’s hometown. And my “baby boy” Jacob (he hates me calling me that!)…
Christmas is a comin’ and Mary sings: “My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior,for he has looked with favor on the lowliness of his servant. Surely, from now on all generations will call me blessed;for the Mighty One has done great things for me, and holy is his name.His mercy is for…
For email posts, click here to watch online. It is that time again. Over the river and through the woods! Family expectations. Time honored traditions. The busiest travel day of the year. Black Friday. Macy’s Day Parade. The kickoff to the holidays. Just how are we going to do Thanksgiving this year? Thanksgiving in a…
For email posts, click here to watch online. Let me tell you the story of V Street versus 13th Street. It is my family’s story wrapped up in the story of my family’s hometown. (My apologies to those of you who have already heard it!) My beloved hometown is just a stone’s throw across the Potomac.…
For email posts, click here to watch online. I think I have told you before that I love to sing. We can’t sing in church right now but we can sing to the high heavens while we are home or riding in the car or outside in our backyards. Today, I would like you to…
Read more “Jesu, Jesu, fill us with your love.”(A Children’s Homily)
Boo!🎃 I love a good ghost story, do you?👻 I especially love the ones with creaking floors and slamming doors, the ones that have to do with houses. On yellow paper, Shirley Jackson typed these mysterious words: “No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and…
For email posts, click here to watch “ASF:The Quest” on Youtube. The Adult Spiritual Formation Ministry Team organizes a full menu of programs to engage parishioners’ hearts, souls and minds: A variety of ways to deepen our faith, wrestle with angels, and translate love of neighbor into action. Offerings include Rabbi via Zoom, Popcorn Theology,…
For email posts, click here to watch online. I recall just a week ago or so hearing the Guitar Circle play and Jennifer Jones wonderfully sing: All Creatures of our God and King. Outdoors and under blue skies. All creatures of our God and King, lift up your voices, let us sing, Alleluia, alleluia! Bright…
