Life is a series of turning corners—as we walk along life’s pathway we easily abandon the past after we’ve turned the bend, especially if it’s been difficult. We’re certainly not able to see the future around the next turn. So, we live in...

For the past couple of months, we've been exploring the idea of connection. This Sunday, our text from Luke shows us the devastation of disconnection. We'll wonder together about the chasms in our own lives and the ways we might try to...

Last week I talked about how we, as a congregation, have offered and can offer glimpses of that Promised Land. This week, I want to talk about how certain individuals do. Barbara Brown Taylor once talking about going to libraries as a child and how...

The story is that none of those who escaped Egypt eventually crossed over into the Promised Land—none of them. It was the next generation who finally made it. We are those who have inherited this promise of deliverance from and destiny in the heart...

Maya Angelou's poem, "On the Pulse of the Morning” concludes with images of humans greeting each hopefully with the words, 'good morning.' In this day of fiery rhetoric internationally and racial conflicts at home, wouldn't...

“It’s uh known fact, Pheoby, you got tuh go there tuh know there. Yo’ papa and yo’ mama and nobody else can’t tell yuh and show yuh. Two things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out...

This week’s scripture, Matthew 13.24-30, 36-43, gives one of the “kingdom parables” that teaches how to live in this beautiful, conflicted, joyful and confusing world. Wheat that is nutritious and life-giving and darnel or...

Just a week ago, the session finalized its decision about a new position for adult faith formation. We will announce on Sunday the plan for filling this critical role in our seeking to be faithful in our generation to the call of God at Westminster.

This is how Luke describes the earliest church: They would sell their possessions and goods and distribute the proceeds to all, as any had need. Day by day, as they spent much time together in the temple, they broke bread at home and ate their food...

Luke tells us that When Jesus was at the table with them, he took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them. Then their eyes were opened, and they recognized him; and he vanished from their sight. It is an amazing, unexpected gift that he is...