Back in 2008 - which seems like a lifetime ago - journalist and editor Phyllis Tickle published a book called The Great Emergence: How Christianity is Changing and Why. In her book - which I and others have referenced in sermons and other places over the...
Photo: The US flag at BPC this past week. An e-mail will usually come to Michelle Jones in the church office, saying, "The governor of New Hampshire requests that all US flags be put at half-staff in memory of. . ." This past week, the request came through to put the...
Last weekend, when our congregation celebrated John Robinson's 100th birthday, there was a big group of people out in Los Angeles celebrating the 90th birthday of Willie Nelson. I have never been a huge country music fan but I was born in Nashville, Tennessee. I have...
In the Bible, there are some people who live for a very long time. Methuselah is not a major character in the Book of Genesis, but we are told in Genesis 5:21-27 that Methuselah lived 969 years. That’s quite a life! Of course, back in those days, I’m...
Every year - on or around Earth Day - I get a call from my friend Ryan. Ryan is a successful professional, a few years younger than I am. Many years ago, Ryan and I attended an Earth Day concert in our hometown of Macon, Georgia. The concert was down by the Ocmulgee...
Sunrise over the Mount of Olives over the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem (Photo by John Sawyer—2014) Three of my friends have been to Israel in the past several weeks. I have been following their time there through their Facebook posts. These three friends did not...
Last week in worship, Deacon Katharine Daly updated the congregation on the latest efforts and long-term plans of BPC’s Green Team. Not only has the Green Team been hard at work, replacing traditional lightbulbs with LEDs and negotiating with an energy broker to...
Photo Courtesy: https://cdn.ringofgullion.org/2019/11/entry-id-117.jpg Just a few months before Amy and I moved to New Hampshire in 2013, we had the privilege to visit the town of Downpatrick in Northern Ireland. This is the place, according to legend, where St....