United Church of Pittsford

I find it hard to grasp the fact that in a few short weeks I will be on sabbatical! I am confident the experience will be refreshing and rewarding for me, and I hope the same for all of you. I know you will appreciate the pastoral care you will receive from the Rev. Barbara Wolin, and I trust you will find most interesting and enlightening the variety of preaching styles and diverse messages you will experience in the summer preaching schedule.

In what is almost an every-four-years ritual, the United Methodist Church has upheld traditional rules on homosexuality, refusing to support or celebrate same-sex unions and maintaining language that calls homosexual activity "incompatible with Christian teaching."

by Kibbie Simmons Ruth , Karen A. McClintock

New York Times
December 13, 2007
Holier Than They
written by Judith Warner

For years, the left – and moderates – permitted the right to frame itself as the sole custodian of “family values” in the United States. It was only when vast numbers of American families woke up to the fact that they were not being valued at all – that, in fact, they were being fleeced – that non-conservatives shook themselves into a sentient state and began to talk about replacing empty words with substantive promises about health care, child care and college aid.

"A PEEK INTO THE FISHBOWL"
by Debra Hegley

When the Pastor-Parish Relations Committee requested that I write a Dialogue article about life in a Pastor’s family, I found myself searching for something to say. I hope these thoughts will prove helpful.