Secrets Your Pastor Can't Share in a Sermon
A unique glimpse at what faith leaders keep silent about.
A blog on the insights of pastors by Rev. Gary Brinn of Long Island. Eleven in the evening is well past my bedtime, which is to confess that I don't have a particularly glamorous social life. A single man in late middle-age on a tight budget, I try to limit my trips to Monte Carlo to once-a-month or so. All of which means I am not at my best when the late Christmas Eve service rolls around. I'd just as soon be tucked away with visions of sugar plums, but we worship late that night, so I suck it up and do my best. This year the choir was excellent, as always, though the whole community has been struggling a bit. It isn't easy to reconcile the call to be festive with the devastation caused by Superstorm Sandy, much less the massacre in …
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12:23 am on Thursday, January 10, 2013
My second child was not allowed to get baptized because of a new priest, same parish . How do I explain that to my oldest, it goes against everything I ever taught, her about an accepting and loving God. Even our parents who are very involved in the parish are horrified. We are now in search of a religion who will accept us for who we are regardless of our faults. Who will not deny our children … more ›