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By now, you’ve heard my pitch about why you should do Holy Week, so this year I’m not going to give it. The fact is, I don’t know why you should do Holy Week. I’m thinking about why these stories

This week, we’re going back in the archives to a piece written by parishioner Marcia Luce in Lent 2011. Marcia died in November but I think she would be OK with us spending some more time with this! With Palm

This week in our Tuesday 6:00 group, we had a conversation about Jesus. We were kind of all over the place. We were responding to this quote from our book, The Restoration Project: If you were to imagine that Jesus

What is Holy Week? Holy week is the week between Palm Sunday and Easter. It begins with Maundy Thursday, continues on Good Friday, and culminates in the Great Vigil of Easter on Saturday Night. These are sometimes called by the

A week later, I’m still mentally reeling a little in the wake of the murder of Waltham High student Tyler Zanco last week. I didn’t know him or his family, but something about the murder of a teenager-a child, really-feels

This week, I’m still mulling over what it means to “do” Lent-what offering could we possibly make, what could possibly be meaningful to God? One idea from Scripture that has struck me particularly forcefully lately is a line we heard

One week in, I hope you’ve been able to enter into Lent in a peaceable way. I almost wrote offering hopes for a “good start” to Lent, which sounds like it’s a race or something we’re trying to accomplish, which

As you know, next Wednesday is Ash Wednesday, but there is some partying to be done before then. We’re doing both jazz Mardi Gras (Friday, 6pm, Steve Taddeo concert) and taking up the traditional English practice of eating pancakes before

Last Sunday in my sermon, I was thinking with you about how in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus was trying to bring his listeners somewhere. He wasn’t just teaching, he was preaching. Our selection was not the nice and

This week, as I was talking with you in my sermon on Sunday, I’m still thinking about the interplay of church as organization and church as people. The buzzword in church circles is “missional”-the focus is on how we are