Author: Larry Dansky Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. -Laura Ingalls Wilder As we all know, we can’t control anyone else’s behavior, and we can’t make another person want to or...

Author: John Bisceglia God said to Moses “I am who I am”   Exodus 3:14 God’s name is not a title but a statement of fact; in our search for the divine, it comes down to the very question of existence of our self and then the...

Author: Carolyn Gard Before you judge people, walk a mile in their shoes. The high school I went to was 70% Jewish, 10% Catholic, and 20% Protestant. While we were friendly with the Jewish kids, we never really became friends. In...

Author: Ed Hall  “Do to others what you would have them do unto you.” Matthew 7:12   Indeed, life is hard particularly when coping with loss. A challenge to each of us when striving to be consoling and comforting is to realize...

Author: Joanne Buchanan-Brown As I write this, it is Friday, June 21st and the Summer Solstice. I just returned from an afternoon of spiritually renewing friendship with four other women, all members of FCC. We had lunch, yes, but the...

Author: Harriet Simons Two years ago, I was grieving the loss of my beloved husband, Parker Calkin, who passed away on June 10, 2017. I had just signed his enrollment in Hospice. Three days later he was gone. In the days and weeks that...

Author: Diana Shellenberger And I tell you, Ask, and it will be given you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. — Luke 11:9 In my zeal to achieve and receive those things I believe will make me happy, I...

A Second Look Author: Larry Dansky “All guests who present themselves are to be welcomed as Christ, for he himself will say: ‘I was a stranger, and you welcomed me’”. – The Rule of St. Benedict 53:1 "But the Lord said to...

Author: Nancy Wade “ reminded me that Christianity isn’t meant to simply be believed; it’s meant to be lived, shared, eaten, spoken, and enacted in the presence of other people. They reminded me that, try as I may, I can’t be a...

Author: Tom Stiers The President of the United Church of Christ (UCC), John Dorhauer, has written that the church is challenged to reach out to those on the margins. One of the so-called groups on the margins are those who define...