7 Words: Facebook Pages and Defining your ‘Voice’

Old South Church in Boston’s Facebook page includes the usual updates on their shared life. But a creative, participatory project caught my eye. Borrowing from The Christian Century article “The Gospel in Seven Words,”  their Facebook page offered their own seven word summations of the Gospel from clergy and members alike over multiple days. From the Minister …

“A Level Place:” A Sermon for Election Day Communion

” A Level Place:” A Sermon for Election Day Communion Tuesday November 6, 2012, St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Longmeadow MA  He came down with them and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea, Jerusalem, and the coast of Tyre and Sidon. They …

A Prayer for Election Day

On this day, more today, we pray for our country divided and ourselves. We confess that we pick up our pens and pull our levers without naming the mothers and men who callused their hands demanding, again and again demanding, their right to vote. We confess that we add to the rancor we despise, presuming …