Monthly Archives: May 2023

On a confirmation Sunday

May 28, 2023 · by · in Ruminations · Leave a comment

“More than at any other time in history,” Woody Allen said in a commencement address years ago, from a viewpoint that was typically his own, “mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.” Sometimes a choice […]

When the day begins

May 21, 2023 · by · in Ruminations · Leave a comment

Last Sunday, on the anniversary of the Tops Market killings, Pastor Kwame Pitts, of Community of Good Neighbors Buffalo, spoke of the need to live out our faith through action, and she challenged us to consider our collective purpose as church, what our role is in all that led up to and now follows the […]

Name calling

May 7, 2023 · by · in Ruminations · Leave a comment

Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me. Most of us know that children’s expression, used when hurtful words are hurled in childish ways. Most of us have probably used it at one time or another, and most of us know it’s not true. Words do hurt us. We have […]