Back from the Cornerstone Festival. No rain and hot but very worthwhile as always. The following meditations (through July 12) are drawn from a 200th anniversary sermon at the Congregational church in Rupert, Vermont.
[What all the people who have attended this church over the years] had in common was that, like us, they believed (or sometimes believed and sometimes didn't believe; or wanted to believe; or liked to think they believed) that the universe, that everything there is, didn't come about by chance but was created by God. Like us they believed, on their best days anyway, that all appearances to the contrary notwithstanding, this God was a God like Jesus, which is to say a God of love. That, I think, is the crux of the matter... In the beginning it was not some vast cosmic explosion that made the heavens and the earth. It was a loving God who did. That is our faith and the faith of all the ones who came before us.
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