by Carol Burns | Jun 10, 2022
A MESSAGE FROM THE REV. J.C. AUSTIN: RE-INVENTING SUMMER READING When I was in high school, the bane of my summer existence was summer reading. That’s a little ironic, given how much I love to read, but I love being told what to do a lot less than that. And so being...
by Carol Burns | Jun 5, 2022
Audio coming! By The Rev. J.C. Austin “Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink.” It’s one of those lines that is so famous that people reference it without any real awareness of where it comes from. Is it from Shakespeare? Robert Frost? Kevin Costner’s...
by Carol Burns | Jun 3, 2022
A MESSAGE FROM THE REV. J.C. AUSTIN: EXPERIENCING THE SPIRIT This Sunday is Pentecost, the Christian holiday celebrating the gift of the Holy Spirit to Christ’s disciples, just as he promised would happen, and which effectively created the Christian church as a...
by Carol Burns | May 29, 2022
Audio coming! By The Rev. J.C. Austin A few weeks ago, the ace starting pitcher of the Baltimore Orioles, John Means, exited suddenly in the middle of the game with elbow problems. After a series of tests, it was determined that he required what is known in...
by Carol Burns | May 27, 2022
A MESSAGE FROM THE REV. J.C. AUSTIN: ALIGNING OUR WILL WITH GOD’S Buffalo, NY. Laguna Beach, CA. Uvalde, TX. These three communities have almost nothing in common: Buffalois a small city struggling to revitalize itself in the “Rust Belt,” the old industrial corridor...
