This is an important moment for Central Church as many of our families are thinking about the financial impact we are making and will make. Last Sunday in my sermon, I tried to make the point that the ancient Stoics from Greco-Roman times were on to something. For they believed that the really good life… Read More »

“It is amazingly good to see you!” That was the buzz I heard between Central friends coming into the building to worship together a couple weeks ago for in-person worship. You could tell there were big smiles, even behind masks. There was an out-sized joy in the air, even for the few gathered. It struck… Read More »

Hello sisters & brothers, My hope is that you are caring for yourselves and for one another in these pandemic days. I sit to write these few lines, aware how this year of vigilance has been hard on everyone. Most all of us have someone in our circles of influence who have suffered symptoms of… Read More »

Haven’t we all been waiting for something lately – like some good news on a vaccine, or waiting for election dramas to be put to rest, or waiting for school plans to unfold, or waiting for better news about your friend’s health? I’ve never been very good at waiting, but I’ve come to see this… Read More »

Friends of Central Church, Contentious elections. Quarantine fatigue. Hurricane and fire and floods. I don’t have to tell you the world and her people are hurting these days, and could use a prayer. So I’ve decided to use my column this month to simply list a few prayers I’m drawn to these days. You might… Read More »

“Watching Over One Another During Covid”   Lately I have been whispering under my breath the “3 Simple Rules” set in play by John Wesley, founder of the Methodist movement a couple centuries ago. Perhaps you know them too since they’ve been resurrected recently by Bishop Reuben Job’s marvelous book “Three Simple Rules”. They tell… Read More »

“KEEP IT GLOBAL” In this time of quarantine, I’m finding it is easy to let our view of the world shrink, in our knee-jerk impulse to fear and self-protection. We look to care for “our own”. We constrain our movements to a close-cropped orbit until we are told it is safe to travel. I get… Read More »

KACI KNOWS ABOUT RESILIENCE – Happy Easter, everyone! Christ is risen! We might even say “Christ is resilient”! Especially in these days, I am thinking about a delightful trait within nature we call “resilience”. Look it up and you will see it defined as: “the ability of a substance or object (or person) to spring… Read More »

STAYING GROUNDED WHEN A STIFF WIND BLOWS So how are you doing out there, as this necessary virus quarantine keeps us apart? Hopefully, you are able to be more grounded than anxious, more hopeful than despairing, more Sabbath-keeping than wall-climbing. As of this moment, we do not know exactly how long we must “stay home/stay safe”.… Read More »

Change Can Feel Like a Stormy Sea –  I recently started a class here at Central about the spiritual giant, Martin Luther, so pivotal to the Protestant Reformation of some 500 years ago. So to start the first class, I had us go around the room to ask where everyone’s ancestors fell on the “church… Read More »