Weekly Reflection Dear Friends, I always find it interesting when something I’ve been thinking about related to the lectionary scripture readings for the week, dovetails with a conversation I have…

Our last Sunday with you will be October 6 A year ago last August, I received a phone call from East Longmeadow asking if I’d be interested in serving as…

MIGRATING TO WHERE DEEP SPEAKS TO DEEP I saw a huge flock of birds swooping and soaring over a field this week. They were undoubtedly gathering to make their annual…

IN SYNC WITH A DEEPER RHYTHM As I was finishing dinner last night, I realized the sun had already set by the time I put down my fork and knife.…

PLAYING WITH FALSEHOOD AND FORFEITING THE RIGHT TO TRUTH Dag Hammarskjold was a Swedish economist and diplomat who served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1953 until…

BREAD AND THE BREAD OF LIFE “Bread,” the Croatian essayist Predrag Matvejević writes, is “the condition of peace and the cause of war, the promise of hope and the reason…

A TASTE SWEETER THAN HONEYCOMB We have a large patch of English thyme just beyond the porch where Jan and I have our morning coffee. It forms the border of…

GOD AND GARDENS Francis Bacon was not only Lord Chancellor of England under King James I, but in 1625 wrote the essay Of Gardens. He begins, “God Almighty first planted…

THERE AND BACK AGAIN It was good to be home last Thursday and to be with everyone at Saturday’s Food Truck fundraiser as well as in Sunday’s worship. I had…

LIVING WITH THE RHYTHM OF LIGHT AND DARK Earlier this week, our neighbors needed a ride to Bradley to catch a flight to visit their new grandbaby in California and…