Happenings April 6, 2022 – From AZ “Well, my work here is done!” That’s what I said at worship on April 3, when the search committee announced your candidate for settled ministry. Actually not quite yet. But things are different now, and they should be. That’s why the term ‘settled’ is important. The term comes…
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Happenings Mar 30, 2022 – from AZ Back in Arizona and appreciating spring. Up north, as many of you remember from your years prior to AZ, spring is fleeting. Or rather, winter hangs on as long as possible. The day I got back to MI it was 60, but every day after that was below…
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Happenings Mar 23, 2022 – From MI As I write from Michigan, the reliable political theater of Supreme Court hearings is going on. I am not watching because it is both predictable and infuriating. Of course, there are a lot of things that are now predictably infuriating about our politics; but that is not my…
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(Yes! We Have Just a Little Longer to Wait) March 31 This is the day the MSC will make an offer to a minister-in-search to become VUU’s Candidatefor Settled Minister. April 3 If the MSC’s offer has been accepted, we will announce this to the Congregation. Once contractagreement has been reached, MSC will be able…
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Happenings Mar 15, 2022 – From MI “Beware the Ides of March!” We all learned that in Junior High or Middle School, along with “Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears.” Shakespeare’s retelling of the Julius Caesar story is probably better known than the history itself. Stories are powerful. And like the example I cited,…
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