Scott’s Column: Engaging Your Questions by Rev. Dr. E. Scott Jones | Sep 12, 2023 | News"The need to be digitally coherent, and at the same time acceptable to everyone, is exhausting,” writes Chris Stedman in his engaging book IRL: Finding Our Real Selves...
Scott’s Column: Happy (Belated) Labor Day by Rev. Dr. E. Scott Jones | Sep 5, 2023 | NewsHappy (Belated) Labor Day! Last week a Washington Post article declared the eight-hour work day to be dying. It stated “only about half of office visits now last for...
Exciting Revision to Wednesday Night Family Nights by Lizz Brennfoerder | Aug 30, 2023 | Education, Events, Mental HealthIn May we held a town hall meeting to discuss the current crisis in adolescent mental health. The event was very well attended and filled with lots of good ideas that...
Scott’s Column: Hip-Hop’s 50th Anniversary by Rev. Dr. E. Scott Jones | Aug 17, 2023 | NewsLast week was the fiftieth anniversary of Hip-Hop. In his book Blue Note Preaching the Rev. Dr. Otis Moss, III, Senior Minister of Trinity UCC in Chicago, wrote: Now...
Scott’s Column: Passport to Exploration by Rev. Dr. E. Scott Jones | Aug 14, 2023 | NewsOn the final day of our recent family summer vacation, Sebastian and I visited Pipestone National Monument in southwest Minnesota. There's a short, easy trail that...
Scott’s Column: Resources for Living–Grief by Rev. Dr. E. Scott Jones | Jul 27, 2023 | News“For as one reweaves the fabric of one’s life after a loss, and as the thoughts around which one has defined one’s aims and aspirations change tense, one becomes to...
Scott’s Column: Resources for Living–Forgiveness by Rev. Dr. E. Scott Jones | Jul 20, 2023 | NewsI was listening to Leonard Cohen’s final album You Want It Darker and the moving second track “Treaty.” The lyrics of the refrain are: I wish there was a treaty we...
Scott’s Column: Resources for Living-Sex by Rev. Dr. E. Scott Jones | Jun 27, 2023 | NewsThe best book I've read on sex from a (liberal) Christian perspective is Good Christian Sex by UCC pastor Bromleigh McCleneghan. I met and befriended Bromleigh earlier...
Scott’s Column: Happy Pride! The Struggle Continues by Rev. Dr. E. Scott Jones | Jun 13, 2023 | NewsFor most of my pastorate I've been a regular contributor to the From the Pulpit feature in the Omaha World-Herald. When I was first invited to submit, we were asked to...
Scott’s Column: Pride Books for Kids by Rev. Dr. E. Scott Jones | May 30, 2023 | NewsJoyce Wilson, who died in April, loved penguins. And her favorite children’s book was And Tango Makes Three which tells the real-life story of two male penguins at the...
