Take your time with this one--shorter than usual, but longer than it needed to be if this were simply a matter of information and not inspiration.

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Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Thanks to Alchemy for their music!

The children's library has hidden among its shelves a great theological text on the sovereignty of God.

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Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

These are days of longing. For this, we find ourselves in good company, if though from a social distance.

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Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

If God is sustainer, and God is free, could it be that God would withdraw the sustaining spirit? And if that happens, then now what?

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Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

When all falls away,

this remnant of what’s real: Church.

Seek, hold its frayed hem.

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It isn't often that the Bible strikes a wrong tone because it's just too silly to go with our lived difficulties. But mood-matching has never been easy among otherwise devoted partners.

Monterey Church (UCC)

Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Sundays haven't been the same since COVID imposed itself upon our lives. When is it time to settle on new traditions?

Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Monterey Church (UCC)

We're awash in kitsch--from our politics to our art to our religion to our homes and self-styling. What's a living being to do?

Monterey Church (UCC)

Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Congregations generally face lean times and times of plenty. Here's to the ones who withstand the lean times. Without them, those times of plenty would be lost.

Monterey Church (UCC)

Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Jesus preaches against slander, and then slanders someone. What gives?

Monterey Church (UCC)

Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)