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2021 October Notes From West Mountain                                        The Rev. Mark Diters           PERSPECTIVE on Our Moment Just a little while ago I ventured onto [...]

View From West Mountain In the James Cagney movie “Angels With Dirty Faces” from 1938, the constant refrain heard among Cagney and his street gang  was “Give it a name.” It was akin to more recent “street” responses to truth telling, “Right on” or perhaps, [...]

Notes from West Mountain General Synod 33 This year’s theme was “Rooted in Love”...from Psalm 1 “We are the Flagg Road United Church of Christ, wherever you are on life’s journey you are welcome here!” We begin our services with these words; as do 4,852 [...]

Notes from West Mountain This Sunday will be the Fourth of July...that morning we will be celebrating the Lord’s Supper as well as recognizing and honoring our country’s 245th birthday. ( You could ask ‘O, it’s that old church and state issue’ right?) Or, not [...]

Notes from West Mountain (The Rev. Mark Diters) The Distance of Grief Last week we lost a beloved member of our congregation and our community. Karen Hollant’s death, though expected, leaves so many people deeply grieving, each in their own way. Our collective prayers for [...]

NOTES FROM WEST MOUNTAIN The Rev. Mark Diters Pentecost 2021 In my mind’s eye, at the head of a table filled with seated suits, I imagine a corporate head strumming his fingers together over his chest, imposing, uncompromising, foreboding. And he utters this common [...]

Notes from West Mountain  April 2021 Welcome to Eastertide! What a marvelous term. SO! What is Eastertide you might ask? Hmm... Eastertide is the fifty days following Easter, and it ends with Pentecost.  The long standing traditional liturgical calendar has all kinds of seasons and [...]

NOTES FROM WEST MOUNTAIN The Rev. Mark Diters Easter is coming! I once saw a magnificent sermon a preacher offered on a Good Friday. He was an artist of repetition and rhythm. And he spoke to the pain and suffering of Jesus in the events [...]

Notes from West Mountain…                                            The Rev. Mark Diters THE MORE THINGS CHANGE--- THE MORE THEY STAY THE SAME! 2021...To begin, a bit of news…Colleen [...]