Have you noticed the beautiful spring flowers all around the church? Memories of past Easter Sundays -- and like those perennials, here...

We have not always had the best PR. There was that whole thing at Salem, a footnote in history until Arthur Miller mapped it onto the Red...

Spring is popping up all over! With an early Holy Week behind us, we roll quickly into spring with many exciting projects ahead. The name...

Thank you all for your attendance last week at our Chicken & Biscuits church lunch. We raised $350 to donate to our mission partner, the...

I am sure none of us were surprised when Alexei Navalny died in a Russian gulag. After all, Vladimir Putin’s assassination squads had...

Thank you all for your attendance yesterday at our Annual Meeting! We had forty-six in attendance and passed the budget and our 2024...

And the Oscar goes to... not “Barbie.” I saw “Barbie.” I liked it, thought it clever, and it certainly spoke powerful truths about...

I’m putting my thoughts together for our 2023 Annual Report and find that we are truly living into our Vision: The Park Church works for...

A few days before Christmas, Linda at City Hall reached out to ask me what I wanted on my business cards. As a new City Council member,...

Have you noticed? Can you feel the energy? If you’ve attended worship lately, you’ll see numbers in the sixties each week! We’re planning...

In Times Such as This The image shows up in my social media news feed almost every day in recent weeks, three boys with clothing and...

This year’s UCC Stewardship theme is “Because of You, Our Church Changes Lives.” And we liked that, but we shortened it a little for our...

The Three Armies Problem At some point, most of you will have been presented with the Three Armies problem. In this exercise, you and...

Checking Our Vision One of my favorite parts of my work at the Church is giving tours of our building. I have to admit I love history and...

Pumpkin Spice Communion I knew I needed to knock off some of the business world's sharp edges before beginning professional ministry, so...

And September takes off..... Isn’t it always the way -- that everything starts off with a bang in September? And it’s no different this...

There has been a lot of finger pointing. People have blamed clergy sex abuse scandals. They've blamed Sunday morning soccer. They've...

You would have good reason to question my judgment. Who signs on the be a minister in an age of terrifying church decline? And it has...

AND WE’RE BACK! In the past I’ve heard the caution “Be careful what you wish for...” And I am guilty of wishing for lots of things at The...

White supremacists and Christian nationalists have bullied Target into pulling much of their Pride merchandise, and Anheuser-Busch InBev...