One of my favorite getaway places is Vermont. I’ve been going there for more years than I can count, and for many years it was my writing retreat. In Vermont, there’s a ski lodge,…

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In the early days of the pandemic a group of congregants began meeting online Monday through Friday at 9:00 a.m. for daily devotions. The group currently uses Our Daily Bread as the basis for…

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The Grace Presbyterian Women’s Group meets on the second and fourth Wednesday of each month from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m. via Zoom (details below). Currently the group is discussing Barbara Brown Taylor’s An Altar…

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A good Sunday School lesson is storytelling at its best. This fall the Grace Church Sunday School began with a series of lessons on communion. The first lesson was the story of the Last…

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Once upon a time there were two brothers who lived with us humans. Here is how they came to us. We had heard that a friend’s friend, Wendy, had 17 cats and kittens and…

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We all read books in general and fiction in particular for a variety of reasons. We read to be challenged, informed, entertained, inspired, educated, edified, and so forth. And reading can accomplish those goals…

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Plus, Notes on the Organ, and More Donald’s fingers flowing on 88 flowing keys: Did you think that sustaining rigorous river Would roll out freighters of flowers, sweet cargo— Those improvisations of our favorite…

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One evening in NYC late in the 1970s, I arrived home to my apartment ready to relax. My roommate met me at the door saying, “Madeleine L’Engle is downtown signing books; we have to…

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