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The Great Task Remaining
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“The Great Task Remaining”
November 15, 2009 sermon by Rev Roberta Finkelstein
In the fall of 1969 I began my freshman year at the University of Pennsylvania. What a year it was! Opposition to the Vietnam war reached fever pitch with the invasion of Cambodia and the bombing of Laos, Kent State and Jackson State . . . The year began in my girls dorm with parietal rules still in effect – including the infamous ‘3 feet on the floor’ rule. By spring, the campus, along with much of the country, was in chaos. Years later by room-mate and I would reminisce; we agreed that there couldn’t have been a more challenging year for two naïve and confused teen-age girls to be living away from home for the first time.
Leave a CommentYour Mission, Should You Chooose to Accept It
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Your Mission, Should You Chooose to Accept It
November 1 sermon by Rev. Roberta Finkelstein
“Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?” Those words, from the Gathering Call back in August, capture the essence of the question before you in this in-between year. They were the first words I heard and sang with you when we began our year of interim ministry together; a year that is already one-quarter finished. Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? In order to thrive, or even just to survive, you will need to know the answers to those questions, the bid idea questions.
