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• BLOG— The rule of love

  By Audrey HackettFebruary 13, 2018

  

  When I was six — and eight, and 10, but never again after then — I made valentines for everybody in my class. Everybody did. The rule was that you liked everybody, even those you suspected you didn’t like.

• BLOG-Speak to Me

  By Amy MagnusJanuary 21, 2018

  

  So much has happened in this week, it is well that it started with a call to service.

• BLOG—”Above all, try something”: On food insecurity in the village

  By Aaron Maurice SaariJanuary 18, 2018

  

  Eighteen months ago, Kate Anderson came to my office at First Presbyterian Church and said, “I feel called to address food insecurity, but I don’t know what that looks like yet.” Now, with three financial donors and a growing list of volunteers, it seems our prayers are being answered. 

• BLOG-The Way of Broccoli Cheddar

  By Amy MagnusJanuary 14, 2018

  

  My daughter’s taste buds are not picky; they are however fickle.

• BLOG-Countdown

  By Amy MagnusDecember 31, 2017

  

  May we greet each other warmly in the coming year.

• BLOG—2017: Making 2016 look better since January 2

  By Aaron Maurice SaariDecember 28, 2017

  

  In my experience, year-in-review pieces tend to be the embodiment of the theme some from Facts of Life: “You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have” a cache of schmaltz, a cache of schmaltz! 

• BLOG-Night Divine

  By Amy MagnusDecember 24, 2017

  

  Slow and steady. Be safe.

• BLOG— Happy Hanukwanzamas!

  By Audrey HackettDecember 22, 2017

  

  Years ago I had a friend, culturally but not religiously Jewish, who devised a third greeting: “Happy Hanukwanzamas!” I was there the day he worked it out on a piece of paper, fitting the three words together.

• BLOG—Rest in Hell, Bernard Law

  By Aaron Maurice SaariDecember 21, 2017

  

  Jesus defined the wicked as those who do not operate their lives based upon the principles of love, mercy, compassion, and equanimity. Sadly, Christians have long fallen short of these ideals.

• BLOG— A fresh field

  By Audrey HackettDecember 19, 2017

  

  In memory, snow fell all winter those first two years. Our backyard became a closet stuffed with bridal gowns, frothy white forms smothering every bush and tree. I loved the stacked inches atop the clean curves of honeysuckle, and the transformed hemlock, a dark Pegasus spreading white wings.