Scott’s Column: Our Best Selves by Rev. Dr. E. Scott Jones | Feb 9, 2021 | NewsThis Epiphany season our worship has focused on the Fruits of the Spirit. This theme has allowed us to focus attention on practical steps we can take to live well and...
Katie’s Musings – The Vaccine Diaries by Kerrie Kleppin-Winn | Feb 3, 2021 | katie's musingsLast week, Scott, Jim, and I were fortunate enough to receive the vaccine. For weeks, there’d been some confusion as to whether or not clergy were included in the...
Gratitude: Guest Columnist Jamie Rudd by Kerrie Kleppin-Winn | Jan 5, 2021 | COVID“Adopting an Attitude of Gratitude” was the culture topic at Nebraska Medicine for the month of December. How timely. On December 23rd, as I sat briefly in a chair in a...
Scott’s Column: The Consolations of Poetry by Rev. Dr. E. Scott Jones | Dec 31, 2020 | NewsI encountered my slogan for the year 2020 in the Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan: This cracked year with its rotting crust of madnessbread. Back in March,...
Advent – Guest Columnist, Fred Nielsen by Kerrie Kleppin-Winn | Dec 9, 2020 | AdventThis the first real Advent of my life. There were other Advent seasons, of course, all of them arriving precisely on schedule according to the liturgical calendar, all...
Scott’s Column: Gratitude by Rev. Dr. E. Scott Jones | Nov 18, 2020 | NewsMy sister ordered Sebastian an Advent calendar. He knows it has arrived but hasn't seen it yet. The other day he asked what day he could open it up and begin opening...
Scott’s Column: Mayflower Compact by Rev. Dr. E. Scott Jones | Nov 11, 2020 | NewsOn November 11, 1620 the Mayflower floated in Provincetown Harbor (the landing at Plymouth was a month away). The crew was grumbling. The voyage had been delayed,...
An Interview With… Barb & Bonnie by Kerrie Kleppin-Winn | Oct 28, 2020 | Interview With . . .Long time finance guru, Lou Lamberty recently stepped down from keeping the books at First Central. He left it all in the very capable hands of Barb Switzer and Bonnie...
Advent Devotionals by Kerrie Kleppin-Winn | Oct 22, 2020 | EventsAdvent approaches. Already. In honor of the season (and what will likely be a weird season at that) and our upcoming Advent Series, “A New World,” we are putting...
Katie’s Musings – But/And by Kerrie Kleppin-Winn | Oct 14, 2020 | katie's musingsI’ve been thinking a lot about language and the way we use it to talk about life and each other and about God, particularly in the present covid/election/world-on-fire...
