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How Christmas Saved Westfield Church

How Christmas Saved Westfield Church

Last Sunday night around 7:45pm, I stood in front of 400 people holding candles. “Lift them high,” I directed, as we began to sing the first verse of Silent Night again. Just like that, a church that had faced so many hard, dark days was filled from floor...
Christmas: A Look Back

Christmas: A Look Back

It’s been cold here. Really cold.  This winter (from this Southerner’s perspective) has been much longer and way colder than my first winter up here last year.  Just the other day, I looked out the kitchen window and saw big, fat snowflakes falling and...
Photo of the Week

Photo of the Week

From the week of  December 30, with thanks to my dear G., who took it from the organ while I was praying. I love the morning light streaming in through the balcony windows hitting my alb just so. And the way it speckles the pew. A new day has dawned, indeed. N.B.:...
Christmas at Westfield

Christmas at Westfield

I know by now that you, like me, are glad get the Christmas decorations down and put away.  I always enjoy having them out during this season, and I ALWAYS enjoy having them put away and my house back in shape. I thought that before we head out of this season for good...
The Other Half of Christmas

The Other Half of Christmas

This morning is the first time I addressed the tragedy in Newtown directly in a sermon. In order to do so, I used the Lectionary from Year C for the First Sunday after Christmas known in Biblical circles as the Slaughter of the Innocents–a fitting scripture when...