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November 5, 2017 Luke 12:13-21 Rev. Kristen J. Kleiman   37 pairs of shoes and 44 pairs of socks 10 boxes of pasta in my pantry and 11 Wendy’s honey mustard packets in my fridge And 124 sticks on my back porch, which Jack calls his “stick collection”. Okay, it might not be... Read More →

October 22, 2017 Philippians 2:1-11 Matthew 22:34-40 Rev. Kristen J. Kleiman   The church as we know it will be completely gone by 2050, according to Beth Ann Estock and Paul Nixon and their book Weird Church: Welcome to the Twenty-First Century. Actually, they write that... Read More →

October 15, 2017 Ephesians 2:11-22, 6:10-17 Rev. Kristen J. Kleiman   Massive wildfires in California, on the heels of four hurricanes. A third White Supremacist rally in Charlottesville, VA last weekend. Fifty eight dead in Las Vegas, which according to the New York Times... Read More →

October 1, 2017 John 15:1-17 Galatians 3:26-28 Rev. Kristen J. Kleiman   In “Pinocchio”, the main character famously sings:   I’ve got no strings To hold me down To make me fret Or make me frown I had strings But now I’m free There are no strings on me... Read More →

September 24, 2017 Colossians 3:1-4, 12-17 Luke 10:25-37 Rev. Kristen J. Kleiman   “This week, you will need to have an immense level of compassion, flexibility, and care.” Those were Don Carlson’s words to volunteers at the Family Promise training, and they are good words... Read More →

September 17, 2017 Galatians 5:13-14, 22-25 Romans 6:1-4, 12:1-2, 9-18 Rev. Kristen J. Kleiman   This year, we are trying an experiment with Children’s Ministry – notice that I did not say Church School – because we do not call it that anymore. Church–Schools were started... Read More →

September 10, 2017 Ribbon Cutting for Renovation Luke 5:27-32, 18:15-17 Romans 12:1-2, 9-13 Rev. Kristen J. Kleiman   (1) Once upon a time, (2) there was a church of people (3) who loved God and who wanted to faithfully follow Jesus Christ (4) So they searched out the future... Read More →

September 3, 2017 Genesis 1:1-2:4 John 1:1-5 Rev. Kristen J. Kleiman   She was a twenty year old college junior at Vassar college, when in October of 1953, Liz Titus Putnam happened upon an article in Harper’s magazine called “Let’s Close the National Parks”. “The article... Read More →

August 27, 2017 Colossians 3:12-17 John 17:20-23 Rev. Kristen J. Kleiman   This past June, the Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut Conferences of the United Church of Christ gathered for a shared annual meeting. The Rev. John Dorhauer, our President and General... Read More →

August 20, 2017 John 15:9-17 Rev. Kristen J. Kleiman   C.S. Lewis, the well-known Christian author once wrote, “Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life.” Virginia Woolf, another well-known author, had this to say about... Read More →