Peter Learns He’ll Grow Older

By Rev. Beth Long-Higgins, VP of Engagement and director of the Ruth Frost Parker Center for Abundant Aging  •  May 01, 2025

My favorite story of the risen Christ meeting the disciples is during the encounter when he calls from the beach to the disciples out on the boat. There are a couple of scenes from this story as we know it from John 21:1-9 that most of us remember.

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A Picture Paints a Thousand Words

By Rev. Beth Long-Higgins, VP of Engagement and director of the Ruth Frost Parker Center for Abundant Aging  •  March 24, 2022

When I arrived in church on February 27 there was a large vase of sunflowers in the front of the sanctuary. I took note of them and wondered, why sunflowers in winter?..

A Season of Beauty and Rhythm

By Rev. John Gantt  •  March 17, 2022

Purchase College. I’m not encouraging you to buy a college. Purchase College is in – wait for it – Purchase, New York. Do not try to purchase New York, either. Purchase..

Even Now

By Rev. Kristen Orion  •  March 10, 2022

Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound the alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the Lord is coming, it is near - a day of..

The Gallery of my Heart

By Rev. Dr. Bobbie McKay  •  March 03, 2022

I married a photographer! I didn’t know that at the time - not that it would have made any difference in my decision to marry this amazing man who had entered my life..

My Music Life List

By Rev. Ruth D. Fitzgerald  •  February 24, 2022

Life Hymn-list One of the blessings of this pandemic time has been the regular schedule of meetings with the “circle” of folks who participate in writing this blog. We..

The Amazing Miracle of Music

By Reverend Bobbie McKay, Ph.D.  •  February 17, 2022

Her name was Emma MacDonald. She was a single lady, at that time known as a spinster: a woman dedicated to the training and teaching of piano lessons for young children...

Memories of Musical Moments

By Rev. John Gantt  •  February 10, 2022

After five months on the job, I nearly lost it. Because of Palm Sunday. We opened with the grand processional hymn “All Glory, Laud and Honor.” The choir, the children..

Music Memories

By Rev. Beth Long-Higgins, VP of Engagement and director of the Ruth Frost Parker Center for Abundant Aging  •  February 03, 2022

My great grandmother would come to visit and stay for a couple of weeks each year. Together with my mother they would play piano duets in the evening after I had been..

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande, M.D.

By Eric Johnson  •  January 31, 2022

Being Mortal is a meditation on how the many triumphs of modern medicine have impacted end of life decisions. We have many choices to make as we face death from our..