by Carol Burns | Sep 8, 2023
A MESSAGE FROM THE REV. J.C. AUSTIN: A NEW ADVENTURE Having dropped my son Liam off at college a few weeks ago, I find myself thinking back to my own experiences of my first few weeks of college. My setting was very different in many ways to his: Sewanee, where I...
by Carol Burns | Sep 3, 2023
This has been a difficult week. Last Saturday, a white man wearing a mask and firing an assault rifle emblazoned with a swastika gunned down three Black people in a racist hate crime in Jacksonville, Florida, again bringing questions around white supremacy and a lack...
by Carol Burns | Sep 1, 2023
A MESSAGE FROM THE REV. J.C. AUSTIN: RECAPPING OUR TOWN HALL As you hopefully know, we held an important Congregational Town Hall last Sunday at which the Joint Finance Committee of the Session and Trustees reported on the current finances of the congregation, as well...
by Carol Burns | Aug 27, 2023
Yogi Berra, the great philosopher of baseball, once said: “It’s déjà vu all over again.” But after reading our Old Testament lesson today, I think it was probably God who said it first. It’s déjà vu all over again for God with the Hebrews. Once...
by Carol Burns | Aug 20, 2023
In November 2001, I traveled with my brother in Chile. I was a pastor in New York City at the time, and the cumulative weight of responding to the September 11 attacks was weighing heavily on our pastoral staff, so we each swapped out a week’s vacation to recover. I...
