The following speech was given on June 10, 2016 by Pastor Vicki after being presented with the Gwen and C. Dale White Social Justice Award…
I am so excited about our church leadership this year. And our new staff—Teresa and Elyse—wonderful! These ladies are truly amazing. Truly. I can’t wait…
Almost 5 years ago, I received a call to jump on a train to meet Bishop J and the Personnel Committee of a progressive church…
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a…
A few months ago, I was having a conversation with a clergywoman who was visiting our church. She is starting a new United Methodist Church…
Last week you probably didn’t hear from me. I was making a long, remote pilgrimage into the snowy Catskills to meet our new bishop, Bishop…
As I grieve the death of my father, I find myself searching for moments of comfort in the scriptures and in my own life. And…
Melissa, the chair of our Blue Ribbon (Visioning) Committee is always using the phrase “Real Talk”. It’s kind of an “Amen”-like feedback phrase that rewards…
Silence. Silence. A sheering, deafening silence. Deep silence, one so deep so as to sub-scend (opposite of transcend) to an unimaginable place below an African-American spiritual…
As some of you know, Church of the Village is vacating a building on St. Marks Place in the East Village so that a new…
