Scott’s Column: State of the Church 2025 by Rev. Dr. E. Scott Jones | Feb 6, 2025 | NewsHere is the text of my annual State of the Church Address, delivered to the Annual Meeting of the Congregation on Sunday, February 9. We live in difficult and...
Scott’s Column: The Cruelty by Rev. Dr. E. Scott Jones | Feb 4, 2025 | NewsThe first really concrete thing I noticed occurred when I arrived for pick-up of my son from the after-school program two weeks ago. Next to the sign-out sheet were...
Scott’s Column: A Big & Beautiful Life by Rev. Dr. E. Scott Jones | Jan 27, 2025 | NewsDo we have the resources and skills we need for this age of crisis? Last week I wrote about the discussion of leadership development at Conversations, the annual...
Scott’s Column: How Are You Developing Your Leadership Skills? by Rev. Dr. E. Scott Jones | Jan 22, 2025 | NewsHow are you developing your leadership skills for our current times? That was one of the key questions of this year's Conversations gathering of United Church of Christ...
Scott’s Column: A Cold Night in Zurich by Rev. Dr. E. Scott Jones | Jan 8, 2025 | NewsA cold night in Zurich. As historian William Estep describes it, "the chill of the winter wind [was] blowing off the lake" as a dozen men "slowly trudged through the...
Scott’s Column: Two Titans by Rev. Dr. E. Scott Jones | Dec 30, 2024 | NewsLast week two titans of the liberal Mainline Protestant churches died--theologian John Cobb and hymn lyricist Ruth Duck. About a dozen of Ruth Duck's hymns appear in...
Scott’s Column: Dark Years? by Rev. Dr. E. Scott Jones | Dec 3, 2024 | Events, NewsIn the late nineties, American philosopher Richard Rorty predicted that in 2016 America would elect a strongman and enter into thirty dark years, but come out the other...
Scott’s Column: Wicked by Rev. Dr. E. Scott Jones | Nov 25, 2024 | NewsThis last weekend was Wicked. I'm only playing with the slang use of the word from my youth. I really mean the opening of the new film version of the popular Broadway...
