Oh Caldwell, there are so many of both, aren’t there? Joys and concerns. As for joys these days – we rejoice with two sets of Caldwell parents, Kate & Meredith and Devin & Jenni, over the births of new babies into their families. We rejoice with students and teachers and administrators that school is out …
Hello, my friends. Gail here. I greet you from the mountain enclave of Montreat, North Carolina, where I have spent the past twelve days. The first days were days of preparation and meetings and sound checks and practices for conference events before welcoming the youth last Sunday evening. The first group of youth was here …
This week’s blog post was written by Anne Hunter Eidson, our minister of music. Thank you, Anne, for sharing this reflection with the Caldwell community. *********“How’s the weather in your soul these days?” This is a question I sometimes ask folks I know well who are going through some things after we have greeted one …
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Caldwell, in many ways, the world feels like even more of a hot mess than usual these days. Covid numbers are rising again. Hope is on the decline again. Gun violence is rampant. Common decency is rare. Our politics divide us. Diagnoses are dreadful. Despair lurks at every turn. More and more people are in …
Dear Caldwell, For yet another week, it seems I write to you in the wake of another faith-shaking event. One news report noted that there have been 900 shooting-related events at elementary schools since the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary, where a gunman killed 20 children and six adults in 2012. Now a small town …
Dear Caldwell, All weekend long I thought about Myra and Richard Harrison Sr. As the news of the horrific act of terror in Buffalo developed, all I could think about was how our late member Richard Harrison, through the powerful influence of his parents, Myra and Richard, helped change Buffalo for the better. Richard, as …
Dear Caldwell, As people of faith (or at least trying) there are so often two ways for us to view life: Do our spirits reflect the abundance we have in God (even when we may not have material abundance) or does our spirit reflect a view rooted in scarcity? On Sunday, we witnessed abundance. With …
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid. – Jesus in John 14:27 Dear Caldwell, As people of faith, we inevitably straddle two spaces – the one our faith defines and …
Dear Caldwell, Happy Wednesday, church. I wrote last week about how, in Eastertide, we can look for signs of hope in a hurting world on each of the 50 days of this holy season of resurrection. The infamous Mike Watson likes to remind me sometimes that “faith is a verb.” In other words, it is …
Dear Caldwell, I find it interesting that the season of Easter – called Eastertide – lasts 50 days when so many other major spans of time in the Bible and in Christian life last 40 days. The great flood lasted 40 days, as did the period of time Goliath mocked the Israelites. Moses, Elijah and …
