Love Letter to East Liberty and Blessing
"Love Letter to East Liberty," delivered at the 06-03-2018 worship service: This is not actually a sermon. It is a love letter. Dear Universalist Unitarian Church of East Liberty, I know it is hard right now to keep spirits up. I know some of you are mad at me for leaving, or worried about what will happen. I know it’s disheartening to not know yet who your next minister will be, and to learn that you’ll be having a part-time minister so that will leave even more work on the shoulder of volunteers. But I have so much faith in you, because I know you and have loved you for so long. Here’s what I know. I know that many churches out there in historic buildings have buildings that are crumbling. They are struggling to keep their building workable, and they can’t even imagine how to make their buildings accessible. And I know you, here, are keeping your building from becoming a historical museum, just an homage to the past, but moving it ever forward to what you n...