This is, they say, the season of anticipation, the season of waiting, of hope and expectation. As I write, we are awaiting the first real snowfall, maybe a blizzard, maybe a mess of ice, snow and slush. Puxatawny Phil didn’t see his shadow on a grey, grim February Groundhog Day so maybe Spring will come […]

Minister’s Column:
As I compose these words it is a grim, gray day with the wind chill factor in the minuses, and still no gracious comforting blanket of snow to cover the tangled stalks and flattened leaves in the garden. No snow to protect and warn all those green shoots that thought that spring was […]

Minister’s Column…
What strange weather this is for late November, as I write this – thick fogs and rain morning and night. It reminds me of the deep moors and barrens of England and Ireland at dusk. You almost expect to see the Cheshire Cat smile from a fog shrouded tree on lonely evenings. […]

Minister’s Column…
In the last couple of days I have been reassembling Rev. Hilary Bigrave’s hymnal (minister here 1875-1879). This congregation had just chosen the first official Unitarian Hymn and Tune Book published a decade before. (Well you wouldn’t have wanted them to pick an untested hymnal, would you? So […]

Did you and members of your congregations miss seeing the highly informative and revealing film abourt global warming, AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, starring former Vice President, Albert Gore?? Now is your chance! Please spread the word to your congregation and friends from other churchs. The film wil be shown at:
FIRST PARISH UU CHURCH […]