by Carol Burns | Feb 20, 2022
Listen By The Rev. J.C. Austin What is the relatively insignificant hill that you are most willing to die on? It’s a question that bubbles up on social media from time to time, which is a little ironic, given just how much of social media is taken up on a daily basis...
by Carol Burns | Feb 18, 2022
A MESSAGE FROM THE REV. J.C. AUSTIN: THE EDUCATION OF OUR LEADERSHIP “Great! Now what?” That’s what a newly-elected Elder said to me a couple of years ago after the Annual Congregational Meeting that year. It can be a bit of a mystery if you haven’t already gone...
by Carol Burns | Feb 13, 2022
Listen By The Rev. J.C. Austin It always amazes me how little a story requires in order to be told. There’s a whole genre of six-word stories, which are exactly what they sound like: an entire story told in just six words. Stories like, “Found true love;...
by Carol Burns | Feb 11, 2022
A MESSAGE FROM THE REV. J.C. AUSTIN:ANNOUNCING NEW PROTOCOLS Friends, I have some good news for you from the Session’s Building Reopening Task Force. As you know, this Task Force has been guiding us throughout the pandemic in terms of our responses to the risk levels...
by Carol Burns | Feb 6, 2022
Listen By The Rev. J.C. Austin This week the sermon title is “Throwing Jesus Away,” which comes from how our Scripture lesson for today ends, with an angry mob trying to throw Jesus off a cliff outside of Nazareth to his death on the rocks far below in the...
