If you notice our worship bulletin’s headings thus far in April, they all describe the 2nd, 3rd, or 4th Sunday of Easter. Easter is not just one particular Sunday. It is a whole season of the church year that begins on Easter Day and concludes 50 days later with Pentecost. During these Sundays of Easter, our scriptures invite us to reflect on gospel stories of Jesus’ resurrection appearances as well as the ongoing meaning ...
Continue Reading → ShareThis week I couldn’t resist reading a story in the Boston Globe that had the headline – “Pork and politics: Towns offer sweet twist on swine tradition.” How could you not want to read a story with a headline like that!
Apparently at least two towns in New Hampshire elect at their town meeting someone to hold the office of “hog reeve,” which is a very old way of describing what we’d now ...
Continue Reading → ShareOn January 5, Alaska Airline’s flight 1282 was forced to make an emergency landing after a panel blew off the plane, endangering the lives of everyone on board. Preliminary reports attribute the near disaster to a failure to install a few panel bolts. How many bolts must there be on a huge passenger jet? There must be thousands of bolts on such planes. All it took was one or more missing ...
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