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Pilgrims, I must admit I have found it challenging to hold our celebration and participation in Crop Walk with our entry into Holy Week on Palm/Passion Sunday….

Pilgrims,  A part of me was grateful our gospel text ended where it did last week–with Peter claiming Jesus as Messiah and Jesus naming Peter as the foundation for the church.

Pilgrims,  I’ve been wrestling this week with Jesus’ question to the disciples from our gospel text for Sunday. After exploring the word on the street about who people think he is, he turns and asks Peter, “and who do you say that I am?”….

Pilgrims, In our gospel lesson for the second Sunday in Lent, Jesus responds to the disciples' fearful cry upon seeing a ghostly aberration walking on water toward them with the words, “take heart.”….

Pilgrims,  I want to share a little about our Lenten journey this year. We will be focusing on the life and faith of one of Jesus’ most famous disciples–Peter….

 Pilgrims, One of the items on my January to do list that helps me to review the past year is analyzing the landscape of my monthly spending…

Beloved Pilgrims, well— This week I have come to know more acutely than I want what it means to feel unclean….

Beloved Pilgrims, I am delighted to welcome Rev. Linda Bullock Vanhook, Associate Minister, Mt Level Missionary Baptist Church  to Pilgrim this Sunday….

Beloved Pilgrims, This first week of January 2024, your pastor must have left her brain in 2023 because as early as January 2nd, I missed a board meeting with DCIA….

Beloved Pilgrims, Christmas Eve approaches and I look forward to all of our festivities throughout the day into the evening….

Beloved Pilgrims, My heart feels a pang this year as we have let one of our Advent rituals retire without much fanfare….

Beloved Pilgrims, I have many Advent shepherds to whom I turn this season who shine light on the nuances of our scripture texts, drawing me behind the curtain of words to explore questions, thoughts, emotions beyond what is written and what is not….