by Cindy Courtney | Apr 11, 2018 | Minister Notes
What a welcome! Thank you to all who have made my first weeks at Second Congregational Church so warmly inviting and endearingly full! From my “shadowing” time with Pastor David to vicariously reliving Confirmation with Pastor Bill and Alice, from touring town with...
by Cindy Courtney | Mar 9, 2018 | Minister Notes
Harry Emerson Fosdick, a minister of the Presbyterian Church in New York, on the occasion of his retirement from the pastoral ministry in the middle of the last century reflected on the unique joys of the pastoral life by saying, “If I had a thousand lives to live in...
by Cindy Courtney | Feb 15, 2018 | Minister Notes
A Lenten Challenge Lauren Winner teaches at Duke Divinity School and published her book on faith crisis, Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis (HarperOne, 2012). She has written about Lent: “We will try to go with Jesus into the desert, to devote ourselves…. To...
by Melissa Clark | Jan 19, 2018 | Minister Notes
Do you ever dream that you can’t find your place? A friend tells of dreaming a version of this same dream night after night. In his dream, he is the official representative at an important gathering. But as he arrives the ceremonies are already in progress. He looks...
by Melissa Clark | Dec 15, 2017 | Minister Notes
At this time each year, we are asked to pledge what we might give the church over the ensuing year. As we consider our commitment, we are forced to prioritize our philanthropy (and perhaps our life’s mission) in both broad terms, as well as in dollars and cents....
