White in America: Can I Get a Witness? (text & audio)

Rev. Jane Page, Guest Minister   (Sing) “Have you seen but a white lily grow – before rude hands have touched it?”That’s the first line of a song that my voice instructor assigned to me. This song was written in the 1600’s for an English theater group. So the...

Poetry Sunday: Reach Out in Love (text only)

Reaching Out in Love by Donna Lisle Burton (read by Jill Preyer) I love this place that I still call my church, for all the facets of the care it brings to an old and ailing woman—I mean love and food and flowers and greeting cards— you’d think I mattered here—only...

What Was I Thinking? (audio)

Bob Wilson, Guest Speaker Our growth is limited if we are unwilling to take risks. Bob Wilson explores the importance of having a supportive community when we are about to step out into the unknown.

Seeking Caesura (text & audio)

Elizabeth Schell, Guest Speaker What my professor was trying to get across, besides obviously really having enjoyed the opening scene to Jaws, was how the poet’s use of a caesura intensified the focus within the poem. A lovely little poetic device, the...