United Church of Strafford, Vermont
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Upcoming Service Notes for July 28, 2019
Last week we heard Jesus say, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and distracted by many things; there is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the better part, which will not be taken away from her.” This Sunday’s Gospel…
Read MorePastoral Letter on “Silence in the Face of Evil”
Dear Church Family, Dietrich Bonhoeffer said, “Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” Bonhoeffer was a Christian pastor, theologian and seminary professor in Nazi Germany on…
Read MoreUpcoming Service Notes, July 21, 2019
The bumper sticker has never been truer: “If you are not outraged, you are not paying attention.” Spiritual wisdom says it matters enormously where and how we pay attention and what we do with our outrage. This Sunday we will…
Read MoreUpcoming Service Notes, July 14, 2019
This Sunday we will hear Jesus give what he considered to be the core teaching of the entire Judeo-Christian tradition, and we will look at how it would change the world if humanity followed it. (Luke 10:25-37) We also will…
Read MoreGolden Rule Applied to Social Issues
The congregation spent many weeks in early 2019 reflecting on the Golden Rule as it related to several important social issues. Here are the notes that were posted on the Parish Hall walls as part of that project. Climate Change…
Read MoreUpcoming Service Notes, July 7, 2019
This Sunday we will celebrate an aspect of prophecy that many people miss—the opposite of the cliché of “Prophets of Doom.” Here are some thoughts that Richard Rohr sent in his daily email meditations this week that get at the…
Read MoreUpcoming Service Notes, June 30, 2019
We need to keep returning to sources of eternal wisdom because as we change and the world changes their message to us changes. Sometimes, like now, our need for their wisdom becomes urgent. We are in a whole new situation…
Read MoreClimate Church, Climate World Book Group Notes
You can see the notes of each session by scrolling down on this page. Climate Church, Climate World book discussion group, Session One 6/16/2019 Attendees: Telos Whitfield, Suzanna Liepmann, Margaret Gadon, Robin Jacobs, Gail Giovanna, Gretchen Harvey, Mark Harvey, John…
Read MoreUpcoming Service Notes, June 23, 2019
This will be the third Sunday in a row featuring this quote from Archbishop Desmond Tutu: “It is possible to have a new kind of world, a world where there will be more compassion, more gentleness, more caring, more laughter,…
Read MoreMusic and Poetry Workshop July 12th and 13th
“Give Sound to Words: Say a word. Sing the same. Hear a song or sing it, too.” A crash course in what inspires poets to write songs and composers to use certain poems, and a chance for us to bring…
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