June 2021 | Vol 410

Letter from the Church Council   What holds us together? On Pentecost Sunday in May, our preacher Cynthia Holder Rich spoke of that event described by Paul in Acts 2 when the gathered disciples of Jesus were filled with the Holy Spirit; and when the Jews of every...

May 2021 | Vol 409

Letter from the church council   I grew up in a small town in Ireland in the 1960s, where every day at 6 a.m., 12 noon and 6 p.m. the bells of the church would ring for “the Angelus.” Everyone, no matter what they were doing, would stop, and pray the set of...

April 2021 | Vol 408

Letter from the church council Over the period of Lent which ends during the first week of April, we have been reading and meditating on Jesus’ life and ministry on earth. Among the teachings which we have read, which of Jesus’ sermons or stories is your favorite? I...