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Sermon from July 1, 2018
Singing the Spirit’s Song in a Strange Land Rev. Thomas Cary Kinder United Church of Strafford, Vermont July 1, 2018 Sixth Sunday after Pentecost Psalm 137; I Corinthians 12-14; Acts 2:1-6 Twenty-five hundred years ago Psalm 137 asked, “How…
Read MoreSermon from June 17, 2018
The Smallest of Seeds: Making High the Low Tree Rev. Thomas Cary Kinder United Church of Strafford, Vermont June 17, 2018 Fourth Sunday after Pentecost Psalm 92; Ezekiel 17:22-24; Mark 4:26-34 Yesterday at recycling someone told me that he…
Read MoreSermon from June 3, 2018
Made Visible in Our Bodies Rev. Thomas Cary Kinder United Church of Strafford, Vermont June 3, 2018 Second Sunday after Pentecost Psalm 139; II Corinthians 4:5-12; Mark 2:23 – 3:6 How are we to live in this world that is…
Read MoreSermon from May 20, 2018, Pentecost
Declaring the Things That Are to Come Rev. Thomas Cary Kinder United Church of Strafford, Vermont May 20, 2018 Pentecost Psalm 104; Acts 2:1-17, 40-47; John 16:13 Professor Carlos Baker was my advisor in college. He was a New Englander…
Read MoreThis Church in This Town in This Time: a Pastoral Letter
I think about Bill Coffin often, of course, as pastors of this church will do for a long time to come. One of my favorite stories about him is from his Yale chaplaincy days. He would ask young atheists to…
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