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 gathering phrase… “I guess you’re all wondering why I called you together for this meeting.” [...]

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 periods, feasts and festivals. The basic seasons are: Advent, Epiphany, Lent, Eastertide, Pentecost...and Ordinary Time.  [...]

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 of the crucifixion, and paralleled that pain to current situations lived out by his contemporaries [...]