Jun 30, 2016 | Pastor's Blog |
NEW INTERIM CHILDREN’S MINISTER IS APPROVED ~ The Personnel Committee and Executive Council approved the immediate employment of the Rev. Kim Crowley as part-time, interim children’s minister at RRCB. Kim is a graduate of East Carolina University and BTSR,...
Jun 15, 2016 | Pastor's Blog |
Largest massacre in US history. Violence perpetuated against a “soft target.” 49 deaths and 53 wounded. Muslim-American shooter. Terrorism against the LGBTQ community. Our news and social media profiles are saturated with it. Our hearts ache because of it. We seek to...
Jun 9, 2016 | Pastor's Blog |
The 18th-century literary and musical movement called “Sturm und Drang” (trans. “storm and stress) led composers such as Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven to write music with a high emotional content. Although some music of almost all the great composers communicates...
Jun 2, 2016 | Pastor's Blog
As a pastor in Waco, Texas, I found that our church was especially interested in adoptions! Our college students came to me first, with a list of wonderful collegians that lived too far away from family to return home—except for a distant holiday. Our church already...
Jun 1, 2016 | Pastor's Blog
Originally published in the Summer 2016 Quarterly Explorer We are today between the Old Testament and the New (are we the Apocrypha…?). In April, we celebrated and gave thanks for the vision and hard work of folks who “passed this way” years ago and left us with...
Jun 1, 2016 | Pastor's Blog
Originally published in the June 2016 Monthly Explorer “Above the hills, along the blue, Round the bright air with footing true, To please the child, to paint the rose, The gardener of the World, he goes.” – Robert Louis Stevenson, Summer Sun June can be a month...
