Rev. Debbie Clark

“What is community?” by Laura Beck For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them. (Matthew 18:20) Community. I was curious so I looked up the dictionary definition. The first one was: “a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common.” The second […]

When Saying Good-bye Long ago you laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands.    They will perish, but you endure; they will all wear out like a garment. You change them like clothing, and they pass away,      but you are the same, and your years have […]

As a mother comforts her child, so I will comfort you; you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.–Isaiah 66:13 Today, we continue our Lenten Friday practice of doing something to deepen our connections or widen our welcome. Our special offering for April is an offering of items for gift bags to be given out at A Place to […]

‘Whoever welcomes you welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me.–Matthew 10:40 May we sing a joyous welcome to friends from many faiths. Amen. –Photo by Art Norton

So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone. –Ephesians 2:19-21 Three generations of women greeted the Just Peace Players in a remote church […]

Finally, beloved, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is pleasing, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. Keep on doing the things that you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, and the God of […]

For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the midst of them.     Matthew 18: 20    In the middle of that first year of the pandemic a friend invited me to join a Fridays for Future standout in Wellesley which has just celebrated its 5th anniversary. Every Friday, from 3-4, we […]

About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there was an earthquake, so violent that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone’s chains were unfastened. –Acts 16:25-26 As we sing and pray, O God, […]

“Grad School & Godspell” by Laura Beck Two are better than one…if either of them falls down, one can help the other up. (Ecclesiastes 4:9) Have you ever been part of something that is so intense that the people going through the same thing with you bond quickly and deeply? That happened to me when […]

“Rejoice with those who rejoice…” Romans 13:15a   Today, we continue our Friday Lenten practice of an action to deepen our connections or widen our community. These are difficult times, when we are acutely aware of pain and injustice, when we struggle to find ways to be present to that pain and fight injustice. With all that is […]