by afladmin | Jun 5, 2025
By: Deacon Renée Beyea (MDiv) Over a hundred years ago a newspaper editor suggested, “Use a picture. It’s worth a thousand words.” He could have no comprehension of how communication would be reduced to fragmentary tweets, nor how we would be intoxicated with a visual...
by afladmin | Jun 5, 2025
By: The Rev. Russell E. J. Martin I am sad to share this, but sometimes I treat prayer as a last resort. It is a strange way to think of prayer but the fact is I usually offer my help before I offer to pray. Someone will come to me with a need or a problem and I will...
by afladmin | Jun 5, 2025
By: The Rev. Russell E. J. Martin In Christ, we are indeed delivered from earthly peril as well as eternal punishment. Current sentiment garbed in Christian faith tells us that all we need do is pray a short prayer and believe. If we do this, we are promised...
by afladmin | Jun 5, 2025
By: The Rev. Prof. Stephen Noll “Glorious things of thee are spoken, Zion city of our God” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrHI3ATW9Co&feature=related).Most hymns are addressed to God. Psalm 48, however, is offered to a place, to Zion. Zion is the central hill on...
by afladmin | Jun 5, 2025
By: The Rev. Michael Hinton There are many ways to have children. My great aunt, Harriet Brightman, was a devout Church woman and very bright. She never got married and, of course, never had children of her own. But she was notoriously happy because of her calling,...
