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By Peter Ives. Now Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah and the Lord showed Moses the Promised Land on the other side of the Jordan River. Then the Lord said to Moses, “Send out scouts to see what is up ahead of you. Send out scouts to see the obstacles and the…
Dear Beloved Church Family, We write to you now with hearts filled with pain and eyes filled with tears. Like you, we are stunned by the news of the shootings in Orlando. Like many of you, we saw President Obama on TV once again speaking about a mass shooting, and his words sounded frightening: “…the most deadly shooting in American history.”…
Being a Christian ally to Muslims means getting to know them, listening to their needs, becoming friends, speaking out against Islamophobia and standing with them in the face of threatening words and actions. Those were some of the ideas that came out of the sixth and final workshop in the Haydenville Congregational Church series “Understanding Islam and Combating Islamaphobia.” Thirty people attended…
Five years ago there was an article in the Boston Globe by Judy Foreman entitled, “Fighting isn’t how you deal with cancer.” She wrote the article for Senator Ted Kennedy on hearing the news about his brain tumor. “Everyone is going to say to you,” she wrote, “‘Fight, Ted, fight!’ You have to fight your cancer, but it’s the wrong image. The…
Some wonderful photos from Northampton’s Pride March with many happy and enthusiastic HCC marchers!