

For All The Saints
We die with the dying:
See, they depart, and we go with them.
We are born with the dead:
See, they return, and bring us with them. - T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding, from Four Quartets Heather and I had a fine dinner up in Mercer Saturday night, celebrating the 10th Anniversary of my Ordination, which is November 4. We had been at the same place in the spring, and tentatively left my name there for a reservation Saturday, thinking ahead. (We are planners) Heather called t


What's Happening Now
What’s Happening Now Rev. Mark D. Wilson I watched some t.v. shows in the 1970’s that were probably a little too mature for my young self. I remember being miffed when Watergate pre-empted All in the Family. I laughed with Laugh In - “Sock it to me!” - and cried as I laughed with MASH. When Donny Osmond broke out his tubular keytar, well, that was about as good as it got for a boy learning how to play “If,” by David Gates and Bread. For a small-town Maine kid, 70’s t.v. a


But then we shall see face to face . . .
Before you start, please read the texts for this Sunday here: https://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu//texts.php?id=164 If God had a face What would it look like? And would you want to see If seeing meant that you would have to believe In things like heaven and Jesus and the saints And all the Prophets - Joan Osborne, One of Us God made us male and female alike in God’s image - God is trans! - but that hasn’t stopped us, lo these last few thousand years, from us trying to m