Bible and Art

I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one’s inner life.  -Etty Hillesum, An Interrupted Life The artist's brush strokes make a difference. The way the light focuses your attention on a particular character in the Biblical scene speaks Read More...

2022-06-23T15:02:03-05:00June 17, 2022|Categories: Carla Aday, Senior Minister Blog|

An Upside Down Ship

By the time you read this our church group of 46 will have said “Arrivederci” to Florence and Rome. The final stop on our “Bible and Art” tour was the Basilica of Santa Croce, where legend suggests that St. Francis of Assisi laid the cornerstone. Michelangelo, Galileo and Dante are all buried Read More...

2022-06-23T15:00:30-05:00June 10, 2022|Categories: Carla Aday, Senior Minister Blog|

Hospitality and Grace

More than 30 years ago our church formed a partnership with a sister African American congregation named Swope Parkway United Christian Church. We enjoyed pulpit and choir exchanges and dinner groups. During that time I made a lifelong friend named Mary Lou Kepler. She had a civic job at the time but Read More...

2022-06-23T14:48:22-05:00June 3, 2022|Categories: Carla Aday, Senior Minister Blog|

In Honor of Love

May and June are filled with activities where families seem to be woven and re-woven together: graduations, weddings, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Memorial Day, end-of-the-year recitals, and in our family we celebrate five birthdays and three wedding anniversaries. But we know that families are also fragile and everything does not always fall into Read More...

2022-05-23T10:16:31-05:00May 23, 2022|Categories: Carla Aday, Senior Minister Blog|Tags: |

Together

My eyes were closed. I took a breath. A unison chorus of voices reverberated off of the walls and inside the caverns of my heart. “Our father…Our daily bread…Our debts.” The moment that startled me and gripped me was not the Hallelujah Chorus or the trumpet fanfare or the organ shaking the rafters, though Read More...

2022-04-28T16:43:24-05:00April 22, 2022|Categories: Articles, Carla Aday, Senior Minister Blog|Tags: |
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