Spiritual Ramblings

Writers Almanac June 28, 2009
The VCCA Fellows Visit the Holiness Baptist Church, Amherst, Virginia
by Barbara Crooker
We are the only light faces in a sea of mahogany,
tobacco, almond, and this is not the only way
we are different. We’ve come in late, the choir
already singing, swaying to the music, moving
in the spirit. When I was down, Lord, [...]

Sermon June 7 2009

We are still working away on the church’s new website – more audio experimentation. Same Audio from the sermon of June 7, 2009. We used a video file from the sevice and filtered with software.

June 12 was the birthday of Brigid Brophy, born in London (1929). She campaigned for the rights of women, animals, and prisoners, even while she was sick in bed with multiple sclerosis at the end of her life.
She said, “Whenever people say, ‘We mustn’t be sentimental,’ you can take it they are about to [...]