When I wrote a couple weeks ago, I promised to come to an additional point of the Washington DC “Love Knows No Boarders” Conference Minister’s Advocacy Days. This is the fulfillment of that commitment. What I wanted to speak a little more about are the impacts that are happening to refugee resettlement. Here in New Hampshire, many of our churches have participated in refugee resettlement programs. This is, of course, true across all of the United Church of Christ. One of the main partners...

My husband Brad’s birthday is at the end of October. And rather than declare just that day for his birthday, he has, for as long as I’ve known him, declared the entire month of October as his birthday month. Fortunately, for me, he doesn’t expect a gift every day, but he does rave continually about how wonderful his birthday month is: how beautiful the weather is, how wonderful the colors of the trees are, or how nice the autumn rain is for the one or two days it rains. And he’s right....

“Believing that fear makes us safer is heresy.” As many of you know, I spent last week in Washington DC with 19 of my Conference Minister colleagues.  We were there to engage in Advocacy particularly around the issues of immigration and LGBTQ+ inclusion.  There was a lot that happened during these few days and I know I will write at least once more about what happened. For this, I am going to focus on the happenings of last Wednesday, October 29 th .  That was our main day of action.  When we...