Mission statement
To members and friends . . . tomorrow at St. James United Church of Christ
It’s impossible to forget where we were last Sunday. We’re still reeling from the events in Haiti… still remembering those words from Isaiah… The earth is mourning… the foundations of the earth will rock… [...]
Beyond Afghanistan – A Time to Break Silence
The above title is based on some words of Martin Luther King, Jr. spoken at the Riverside Church in New York on April 4, 1967 – exactly one year before he was killed. It was at a meeting of CLERGY AND LAITY CONCERNED ABOUT VIETNAM, and he began:
“I come to this magnificent house of [...]
The cheapening of religion
An interesting comment by a reader of Andrew Sullivan’s blog describes the “cheapening of religion” that seems to have found its essential expression in the absurd outburst by Brit Hume. It seems to me that we’ve been seeing quite a bit of this sort of thing in Loudoun, such as in the recent outburst over [...]






