If you have yet to watch our video, this episode brings home just how timeless and continuously relevant Beatles lyrics remain decades after the height of their popularity.
In this discussion, Gareth and communications intern, Hope Durot, link two songs to recent movements and challenges in our society and to similar messaging in the Gospels. Specifically, how “Blackbird” and “Here Comes the Sun” relate to the BLM movement and the COVID pandemic.
We have all been the blackbird in the dead of night, learning to fly during this pandemic, as well as during the George Floyd and Breona Taylor tragedies. “Here Comes the Sun” is an anthem of hope that better times are coming. With Easter just around the corner, let’s all join in saying, “here comes the sun.”
This past Sunday in my sermon I leaned heavily on the wisdom of Anne Lamott as I explored the nature of mercy as it relates to the practices we immerse ourselves in during Holy Week. Here’s her definition of what mercy looks like: “Mercy is radical kindness. Mercy means offering or being offered aid in desperate […]
Back in the 50’s and 60’s, it was thought that 500-year-old church divisions could be healed if churches reached across denominational lines and got to know each other. This was an exciting time for the churches in Irvington, as all the fundamental theological issues between the Protestant, Catholic, and Anglican Churches were on the way […]
In my message last week, I wrote of an emerging sense of optimism shared by our church leadership that church life can once again take on the semblance of normality. This past week, Bishop Dietsche shared his own sense of optimism in a letter entitled, “Return of the Common Cup.” He wrote, “…with the waning […]