Dear Village, As Christmas approaches I find that I miss the snow and lights of Maryland. A friend lives up on a mountain and we’d regularly visit for movie nights, BBQ’s, or just to hang out. On the way was a farmhouse set back from the road that every year…
Dear Village, This Sunday we light the first advent candle of the season, the candle of hope. As we commemorate World Aids Day I feel both heartache and hope in equal measure. Heartache for those who have already gone, those bright shining lights that touched my life in so many…
Are you happy where you are now, with who you are now? Are you happy with your spiritual life, your mental health, the tools with which you carve your place in the world? Even if you are, why not use the coming year to change your life. It’s said that…
Dear Village, Very soon we will be holding our very first congregational meeting, often called the Annual General Meeting*. We will set a budget for the coming year and vote for new board members, as well as look at the year that’s gone by. Do you have a story or…
Dear Village, Today is October 21st, and if you didn’t know already it’s the date that Marty McFly visited when he traveled to the future in Back to the Future part 2. Chris has the box set out and is working away with the films running in the background. I…
Dear Village, Are you looking forward to Saturday’s retreat? I am, and have been for some time! We are such a diverse group of people we all have very different ideas about what is sacred to us. For some of us it’s a religious heritage, rich in tradition. For others…
Dear Village, I’m looking forward to hearing Alice Denny speak this Sunday, and I’m looking forward to our retreat in a couple of weeks! Both such special events! I’m a lover of poetry, it has the power to stir me in ways that can’t be explained – only experienced. I’ve…
Dear Village, This coming Sunday the 27th September is a special day. It’s not just Belfast’s annual baby Day, or the beginning of freshers week for many colleges around the UK; It’s not just the day when the Worshipful Company of Woolmen will run the annual sheep drive across London…
Dear Village, Sunday 4th October is Anniversary Sunday in MCC. We’ve come a long way since we began in 1968. Same sex marriage is now a reality in many places and the world is changing in ways that are liberating and exciting to watch. However, just as many countries leap…
Dear Village, Chris and I have been in a bit of a whirlwind the past month or so. Firstly there was Trans Pride, then Pride itself, then the Network Gathering, the wedding in Scotland, searching for cheaper granite colors for countertops, my new part time job with all the training…