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...

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...

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...