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This Sunday, MPC will kick off Earth Week with a special Celebration focusing on “Kinship with All Beings.” In a kinship worldview, which has deep roots in many Indigenous cultures, all living beings are seen as persons possessing their own unique gifts and wisdom. Humans are not masters over the natural world, but are simply one species among many in the interdependent web…
This article was written by OGMC member Mel Terry as part of their “True Colors” spring concert. February marks Black History Month, a tradition that got its start in the Jim Crow era and became official in 1976, with President Ford calling on the public to “seize the opportunity to honor the too-often neglected accomplishments of Black Americans in every area of…
Join us on December 18th at 10 am for Magnificat in G Minor by Antonio Vivaldi (1678 – 1741). This performance, by the Montclair Presbyterian Church Choir and Chamber Orchestra, is a wonderful way to celebrate the holidays. According to the gospel of Luke 1:46–55, Mary (the mother of Jesus) traveled during her pregnancy to visit her cousin Elizabeth, who was carrying the…
Friends, I went to seminary at a time (the early ’90s), in a place (Princeton, New Jersey), and among people (mostly White, middle-class Americans from the Eastern Seaboard), in which and for whom the ideal Presbyterian minister was urbane, erudite, cultured, well-read, and well-versed in the arts; a clergyperson was to be politically liberal but not radical and theologically modern without losing…
Friends, I am using this installment of “The Pastor’s Pen” to thank you for all the ways you continue to keep COVID safe. In general, thing have gotten more relaxed COVID-wise. The State of California has eased off on many masking requirements, folks are getting out more and traveling, and sometimes I have felt as if things are almost back to normal.…
PLEASE MAKE THREE QUICK EMAILS OR CALLS FOR CLIMATE ACTION IN THE SENATE! A good-sized chunk of the Build Back Better Act’s climate provisions have the votes in the Senate to pass, but are taking a back seat to other issues right now. Yet nothing could be more urgent. We need Biden and the Senate to prioritize and pass them before the…
Friends, By way of giving you a preview of the next sermon I’ll be preaching, let me say that November is an interesting month in that it plays host both to the day we Americans set aside for giving thanks, and Veterans Day, which originally was set aside to commemorate the end of the 20th century’s first global war. Most of us…
PILLORY While the pillory has left common use, the image remains preserved in the figurative use, which has become the dominant one, of the verb “to pillory” (attested in English since 1699) meaning “to expose to public ridicule, scorn and abuse”, or more generally to humiliate before witnesses. [from Wikipedia] NO PICTURES: Two (2) carpeted wood stage platforms, in brown carpet, 4’…
Dear Church Family, A few weeks ago Michael and I had our youngest niece and nephew stay over for nearly a week while my sister (the kids’ mother) flew to New York to visit our mother as she continues to recover from all her treatments. The kids are number 8 and 9 in the roster of my nieces and nephews, and I’ve…