Notes from West Mountain…                                            The Rev. Mark Diters The Month of GIving...and for Thanksgiving In the liturgical calendar, the month of November comes in with All Saints’ Day, November 1, and goes out amidst the first week of Advent. [...]

2021 October Notes From West Mountain                                        The Rev. Mark Diters           PERSPECTIVE on Our Moment Just a little while ago I ventured onto a swing ride at 6 Flags New England amusement park. It was the Sky Screamer, [...]

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, “Word”.  God is with us.  Thinking back to the winter of 2020, I did not [...]