Articles for Gathering are written months in advance in order to meet publication guidelines. As I write this, it’s spring 2020, early April, and while thoughts should be leaping forward to Advent and Christmas, they are mired in the current chaos of a viral pandemic. Anxiety and unknown are singing...
As we look toward the new church year, we enjoy a time steeped in tradition, when change often takes a short breather. But time is all about change: a new style, a new way, a new technology. Especially now, times are a-changin’ for the United Church, and with transition comes…well…just...
As a piano-playing teen, I was recruited to fill in for the organist at our small, rural neighbourhood church, and then I took over the task when she retired. We always had a small choir, between six and eleven souls, and conducting was done with the occasional one-handed gesture or...
