Finding Light in Uncertainty

Finding Light in Uncertainty

Third Sunday in Advent, December 14, 2014 Isaiah 9:1-7; 2 Corinthians 11:12-15 On November 13, 1789, Benjamin Franklin wrote a letter to French scientist Jean-Baptiste Leroy in which he said, “Our new Constitution is now established, everything seems to promise it...
Finding Light in Fear

Finding Light in Fear

Second Sunday in Advent, December 7, 2014 Luke 1:26-30; Luke 10:30-37 Helen Cooper is a writer for the New York Times. Her coverage of the Ebola crisis is unique because she was born in Liberia and she still has family living there. Having immigrated to the United...

Finding Light in the Darkness

First Sunday in Advent, November 30 2014 Genesis 1:1-3 On our trip to Finland last summer, we were greeted by days filled with eighteen hours of sunshine. While there, we visited the Arctic Circle, where there are days during the year when the sun never sets. Now this...
A Universal Language

A Universal Language

October 14, 1014 John 11:35  The first sound we make is a cry.  That initial cry from a newborn is music to the ears of everyone in the delivery room. It’s the sound of life. It’s also a sound that a mother and a father soon learn to like less, as it means 2:00 A.M....