“Take away from me the noise of your songs; I will not listen to the melody of your harps. But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an everflowing stream.” (Amos 5:23-24) This week’s lesson from Amos reminds us that being religious isn’t always a virtue. It is possible ...

“For all the saints, who from their labors rest…” All of us are indebted to those who have gone before us. We know much of what we know because they passed it down to us. We are able to do what we do because someone showed us skills and abilities ...

The old spiritual sings, “We are climbing Jacob’s Ladder…” but is that really how God works and calls us to respond? We meet or hear about people all the time trying to “find God.” In the church language there is a term for such people as they are referred to ...

“For if we live, we live for the Lord, or if we die, we die for the Lord; therefore whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.” Romans 14:8 We belong to a small group that meets by phone for what we call “centering time” on Tuesday mornings from ...