Earlier this week my wife forwarded me a wonderful article from a United Church of Christ publication … a daily devotional kind of piece that comes over the internet. One of the benefits of having a wife who is currently a pastor in a UCC congregation is the interesting materials their church generates. It enriches Read more
Last Wednesday, when I was coming in to work, I happened to take the route from my car to the door that runs between the church and the neighboring buildings which house offices of various law firms. Maybe you’ve never noticed, but there is a small blue gate just down from the church on Pine Read more
It has occurred to me recently that the greater Harrisburg area is well endowed with fine musicians … both resident and those who hail from this area and have made their names on the national scene. Two of those musicians are Jonathan Hays and Jeremy Gill who are the guest artists for our next Music Read more
I don’t know about you, but I’m old enough to remember the first Earth Day. It was in 1971 and I was living in Levittown, Pennsylvania in an apartment complex that was right next to the old Delaware Canal. This was a major waterway in the early days of eastern Pennsylvania as it allowed freight Read more
Over the past few years I’ve begun to hear rumblings around the church … you know … stuff about which members get frustrated. It is an inevitable occurrence … when you have a group of people together in one place, drawn from all walks of life and various backgrounds and life experience, you’re bound to Read more
This morning I caught a few minutes of Morning Joe where they were interviewing Deepak Chopra. The several persons gathered on the set were bemoaning the strange phenomenon of the richest generation in history being one of the least happy. So many well to do people depressed, anxious and unable to enjoy life to its Read more
Have you ever noticed that no matter how hard the Hallmark folks try, they just can’t make Easter into the kind of holiday Christmas has been from time immemorial? Santa Claus sometimes shows up by mistake at the manger, worshiping right along with the Magi … but you never see the Easter Bunny at the Read more
Few composers in the course of musical history have been as influential as Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750), whose 327th birthday we celebrated yesterday. Born in a small town in Northern Germany, Bach never traveled more than a couple of hundred miles from his birthplace during his lifetime. He lived the life of a Read more
Once in a while … perhaps too often … my roots, buried deep in Anglican soil tend to show. The tradition, over the years, of celebrating Choral Evensong as I learned it in childhood from the Prayer Book of 1928 of the Episcopal Church, is a facet of that piece of my soul that still Read more
I was grateful this week for a note that was left in my office mailbox. It came from a gentleman who regularly attends Pine Street but is not (yet) a member. He passed on a beautiful article from a devotional magazine (which was not identified) about church music entitled, “Thank God For Music” written by Read more
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