August 7, 2024 Reflections of a ten-year-old, seventy-one years later For some unknown reason, the other day, I started thinking about the Apostle’s Creed and the Nicene Creed and their differences and reasons for having them as they are not in the Bible, per se, as is the Lord’s Prayer. I did my usual and went […]

July 31, 2024 Image attribution: “And God said, Let there be light: and there was light” Genesis 1:3 From the “Genesis: The Creation” book project. Copyright retained by J. Kirk Richards, Let there Be Light 1, Oil on Panel Continuing the Reflections We continue to make our way to the Nicene Creed series. As we […]

July 24, 2024 A Pause for a Little Reflection Last week we began a series on the Nicene Creed. And we jumped ahead. Instead of starting at the beginning, we jumped into the middle. This week, we pause. A little moment offered as we pick up again next week from the actual beginning of a […]

Legislative History – Council of Nicaeaby DIck Fichter, parishioner with support from Rev. Dina Legislative History- Council of Nicaea Continuing from last time, we are looking at the legislative history of the Nicene Creed to better understand its meaning with respect to the Holy Spirit. We decided to look at reports on the issues resolved by […]

July 3, 2024 THANK YOU! And – Camels Then and Now Thank you for providing me with a nice vacation period which enabled me to visit my cousins in Arizona and California. I had a great time with them, and I am only sorry that I was not able to enjoy the big Fourth of July […]

The HDM deliveries are going on vacation in June! 🙂 The Hump Day Messages are taking a vacation in June and will return in July with some fun examinations and observations about the Church. What is that Nicece Creed all about anyway? Until we return: A summer break blessing! For Equilibrium, a Blessing by John […]

May 23, 2024 Another poem for Pentecost and the season after. PENTECOST by Derek Walcott Better a jungle in the headthan rootless concrete.Better to stand bewilderedby the fireflies’ crooked street; winter lamps do not showwhere the sidewalk is lost,nor can these tongues of snowspeak for the Holy Ghost; the self-increasing silence of words dropped from a […]

May 15, 2024 Worship: A Multigenerational and Shared ExperienceSuggestions for Living into the Grace of it All Did you know? Worship is a shared experience. It is an embodied experience. It is meant to give us an experience of what God’s Kingdom, of what Beloved Community is like. In worship, we all participate. We get to practice […]

May 8, 2024 Another poem for Eastertide! Into One Spiritan Eastertide poem, on baptismSarah Agnew it runs, it frolics, it drives a pathinto the earthslowly deeperquickening keeper of the rootsfurrowed alongsidefrom the profligate scatteringof seeds some time agoit runsa way both followingand beckoning, respondingand callingit runsaloneyours aloneand yet it joinsa river running far beneath all riversearth […]

April 24, 2024 Easter is a season of 50 days, not one. It is a season. A season longer than Lent. Longer than Advent. Longer than Christmastide. Longer than Epiphany (most of the time). Every one of these fifty days, for which we are now at the midpoint, is an invitation to focus attention on resurrection. […]