Story: Root & Branch
Themes of peace, Veterans Day, racial justice and white privilege through the lens of the olive tree and the olive branch. Taste & See worship series JCC 111019 – Root & Branch from architect on Vimeo.
Reflections on olive trees and peace: themes from Taste & See series. How are olive trees symbols of peace, resilience and hope?
Peace puts forth her olive everywhere. — Shakespeare Like a twisted olive tree in its 500th year, giving then its finest fruit, is man. How can he give forth wisdom until he has been crushed and turned in the Hand of God. — Rabbi Akiva It’s the little things citizens do. That’s what will make […]
Meditations on figs and vines in scripture: themes from Taste & See that show up as images of peace, abundance, mercy, hope and justice.
We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond. — Gwendolyn Brooks The result will be fruit that blesses the world and reveals us as … a community of love. Together, we are so much more powerful than any of us can be on our own. However, this […]
THIS WEEK at Jackson Community Church and Around Town: TUE, Oct 15 – SUN, Oct 20
EVENTS with JCC: Clergy Lunch, Multi-Church Bible Study (Making Sense of the Bible by Adam Hamilton), Deacons, Fitness with Laurie McAleer, Council Meeting, Yoga with Anjali Rose, Way Station shifts, AA, Pastor’s Hours, NH UCC Annual Meeting (Concord), Interfaith @ Gazebo, Sunday Worship. AROUND TOWN: Toddler Storytime, Critical Hours book lecture, Environmental Trivia, Fall Mushroom Exploration. […]
Reflections on fish, and their connection to our call to be stewards of creation & fishers of people: themes from Taste & See
… a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape … — Doris Lessing Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. — Henry David Thoreau Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, […]