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Service for All Ages
Rev. Ellen Jennings

What’s this?  A tennis ball!  I used to love playing tennis, but now I mostly use it to play fetch with my dogs. 

Who else plays tennis?  Can you tell us what it’s called when you have zero points in a game?  “Love.”  Isn’t that an odd way to say, “zero?”  I think so.  Hence, I googled it, and guess what?  No one knows for sure why the word “love” is used to

Read More “Reflection- Love Wins 2-17-19”

Rev. Ellen Jennings
~ Ephesians 2:14-15, 19-22, Luke 4:14-20 ~

My Junior Year in college, I had the good fortune to take a poetry seminar with Noel Perrin, an English Professor who lived on a farm in Thetford, Vermont.  He held class there, which was perfect, because the poet in question was Robert Frost, who lived on a similar farm in New Hampshire much of his life.

If you’ve read any of Frost’s poetry, you know that much of his

Read More “Sermon- Walls 2-3-19”

Rev. Ellen Jennings
~ 1 Corinthians 12:12-31 ~

It’s been a long month, and some of us are tired.  I mean, Christmas hadn’t even arrived when the government shut down over a lengthy, still unfinished fight about funding and walls, leaving people without pay and people worried about people without pay— and the state of our union, and our souls. 

So, I asked myself what sort of sermon might be needed this morning.  Last Sunday our service addressed the very

Read More “Sermon- We Are Not Machines 1.27.19”

Rev. Ellen Jennings
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Sunday

Democratic Whip James Clyburn spoke to Congress this week, condemning racist remarks made by Iowa legislator, Steve King:

I rise today to address what I call a tale of two Kings.  One, a member of this body, who wondered out loud… why the terms “white nationalism” and “white supremacy” are offensive.  I will say to my colleague the terms are offensive because the concepts are evil… today I denounce the

Read More “Reflection- Human 1-20-19”

Rev. Michael Durst
~ Matthew 2:1-12 ~

Today’s Gospel reading about the magi, the wise men who journey from the east to present gifts to the infant Jesus, tends to evoke in us warm Christmas-card images:  images of a hushed group of richly dressed admirers, suffused by radiant light, paying homage to a beautiful and serene baby.  The scene is one of infinite promise, of hope for the transformation of the world as the infant Jesus grows into adulthood. 

And

Read More “Sermon- Epiphanies 1-6-19”