-
-
Recent Posts
Categories
- Bible
- Buildings
- COVID
- Doomed
- History Lessons
- Holy-Days
- LBGTQ
- Maine Cautionary Tales
- Misc
- My Life as Pastor
- On the Hopeful Side
- Other Denominations/Christians
- Popular Culture, Movies, TV
- Should Have Learned in Div School
- Sports
- Studies, Demographics, Reality
- Uncategorized
- United Church of Christ
- Worship
Archives
- October 2021
- September 2021
- August 2021
- July 2021
- June 2021
- May 2021
- April 2021
- March 2021
- February 2021
- January 2021
- December 2020
- November 2020
- October 2020
- September 2020
- August 2020
- July 2020
- June 2020
- May 2020
- April 2020
- March 2020
- February 2020
- January 2020
- December 2019
- November 2019
- October 2019
- September 2019
- August 2019
- July 2019
- June 2019
- May 2019
- April 2019
- March 2019
- February 2019
- January 2019
- December 2018
- November 2018
- October 2018
- September 2018
- August 2018
- July 2018
- June 2018
- May 2018
- April 2018
- March 2018
- February 2018
- January 2018
- December 2017
- November 2017
- October 2017
- September 2017
- August 2017
- July 2017
- June 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
Meta
Monthly Archives: March 2018
Where Does Easter Start?
As I was scanning the local newspaper a couple of days ago, I stopped at an almost full-sized ad from one of the local supermarket chains. The colors of the ad, bold spring colors on a page that was otherwise … Continue reading
Posted in Holy-Days
Tagged Dr. Seuss, Easter, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, O Sacred Head Now Wounded
Leave a comment
The Funny Thing About Numbers
A math professor friend of mine likes to joke that real math doesn’t use numbers. The church could use a similar sort of approach. Do real churches need numbers? Attending a Conference meeting at a church about an hour from … Continue reading
Posted in Maine Cautionary Tales, Misc
Tagged church and numbers, Church decline, Mainline Church
Leave a comment
On Walking Out, Protesting and Making Change
Today, high school students from around the country are planning to walk out of their classrooms at 10:00, in remembrance of the students and staff killed in the Parkland shooting and to demand stricter gun control laws—unless they are having … Continue reading
Posted in Misc
Tagged gun control, Harvard Divinity School, National School Walkout, Parkland, Protest, school shootings
Leave a comment
