President's Message - January 2023
What a busy December we had! Thanks to all who participated in the Paul Nixon marathon five-session focus group process on December 3 &...
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Pastor's Message - January 2023
As I write this, there is chaos at our southern border. Countless thousands hope to use international asylum protocols to escape poverty,...
President's Message - December 2022
December’s always a flurry of activities, and this year is no different! Hope you’ll pull out your calendar and make sure all the...
Pastor's Message - December 2022
The Christian Century has been a primary source of information for Mainline Protestant clergy for well over a century. Like many...
President's Message - November 2022
Here’s what I wrote last year this time – updated for 2022. And I’m still grateful! For many years, decades ago, I began each morning...
Pastor's Message - November 2022
The Case of the Canceled Ye Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, is in hot water yet again. An immensely talented musician, he is...
President's Message - October 2022
The Greening of The Park Church In the past two years, we have taken steps towards living into our commitment to be a Climate Justice...
Pastor's Message - October 2022
I don't use Microsoft Office. This goes back to my days in the tech industry. Part of it has to do with their business model, which was...
President's Message - September 2022
Hurrah for the culmination of our first 175 years! Our August 7th program: Jack Waddell Presents Mark Twain’s America with Deborah...
Pastor's Message - September 2022
Conservatives were freaking out, organizing book burnings, and passing bans. This wasn't Nazi Germany in the 1930's, but instead was the...
President's Message - August 2022
Feel a little bit like you’re caught in the movie Groundhog Day? With the continuous stream of bad news abounding related to global...
Pastor's Message - August 2022
It is a good thing I am not in charge of much of anything. I'd be bombing Moscow, which is probably the wrong answer, banning imports...
Pastor's Message - July 2022
This month, we celebrate America's independence from Great Britain, a statement of intention more than fact when it was signed in 1776....
Pastor's Message - June 2022
The best funerals are the ones where there are smiles and laughter amidst the grief and tears. By that standard, a recent memorial...
The Artists Upstairs
Meet Phyllis Bishop and Jon Knight When and how did you two become part of the “artistic renaissance of downtown Elmira”? In 2017 we...
President's Message - May 2022
Wow! Have things really opened up – and not just the daffodils at the church’s front door. Like the robins outside my open window – the...
Pastor's Report - May 2022
You don't have to know me very long to know how I feel about charlatans and cons. You've all heard me rail against “cryptocurrency,” and...
Pastor's Note About Holy Week
Holy Week stands at the heart of our Christian story. Jesus, a religious radical, spoke for the poor and the oppressed, and called for a...
Pastor's Report - April 2022
With apologies to my vegetarian friends, I begin with a quote from a wise woman, a Unitarian Universalist physician, who told me thirty...
March 2022 - President's Message
“I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving... we must sail sometimes with...
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