The July edition of our church newsletter, Concern in Action, can be read here and our letter from Pastor Shepherd is also posted below. This summer, the lectionary schedule has lead us through the first few chapters of the Gospel of Mark. The shortest of the four Gospels, Mark is at once both the most accessible and at times strangest telling of the story of Jesus’s ministry. We’ve heard stories of demons being cast out, of miraculous healings, of confrontations and run-ins

The June edition of our church newsletter, Concern in Action, can be read here and our letter from Pastor Shepherd is also posted below. Spring is turning to summer all around us—a change is in the air (along with all the pollen). As people of all ages continue to get vaccinated and transmission of COVID-19 slows, the present is opening more and more to the future, with plans for meeting up and going away being made and coming to fruition after so much time at home. At Union,

The April edition of our church newsletter, Concern in Action, can be read here and our letter from Pastor Shepherd is also posted below. Throughout the Easter Season, I’ve been preaching a sermon series on the lectionary texts from the Book of Acts called “What Happens Next.” The powers-that-be who composed the Revised Common Lectionary—the guide to which scripture readings are read each Sunday over a three-year cycle—chose during the Easter season to include passages from A

The April edition of our church newsletter, Concern in Action, can be read here and our letter from Pastor Shepherd is also posted below. Last year, our oldest son Brady attended the Sharon Cooperative Nature School at Moose Hill Farm for pre-K. When the COVID curtain fell and the kids could no longer go to the school, they put out short videos instead to teach the kids some of the things they’d normally learn while out on their daily hikes around the farm. One video, in par