I love poetry – I always have. In this poetry month at Second, three poems come to mind – all of them old, like me. As aches and pains come and go each day and my mobility decreases, I recall “The One Hoss Shay” (1858) by Oliver Wendell Holmes. The poem is much too long to print here, but the…
Blog Post by Ruling Elder, Joyce Wilks-Love Cote Brilliante Presbyterian Church 2022 Presbytery Moderator For my birthday in 2015, my cousin gave me the book “The Butterfly Effect”, by Andy Andrews (New York Times bestselling author). Initially, I did not read the book, but this year, through a quest for new reading material, I picked it up and read it…
Presbytery Guest Blog by Rev. Karl Hauser Southminster Presbyterian Church 2021 Presbytery Moderator There are lots of things to value in the church. If you are reading this you are probably part of a church already. If so, how would you explain to someone outside of the church, WHY the church um… actually matters? An easy way to start off…