Happy prep time for our upcoming 2025 2026 RE program! The 2025-2026 Religious Education (RE) program is around the corner. Religious Educators nationwide are all preparing for the start of their respective upcoming congregational and church RE program years like an athlete prepares for “The Big Game.” I am fortunate to be part of the...
Greetings Everyone! Happy May! 2024 -2025 is proving to be a very complex journey that is producing a gamut of emotions for us all. The continuous evolution of the multiplicity of events transpiring in the fabric of our daily lives can create feelings of unease and pressure to “do something” on many levels. The urge...
From Judith Hogan, Director of Religious Education Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase. –Martin Luther King, Jr. Greetings! Well, we missed January but I’ll say it anyway, “Happy New Year!” There are certain things in life that cannot be changed, like how we come into this world...
The theme for March is Renewing Faith! Calendar Connections Click on the name of each event for more information or inspiration. Interfaith: Ash Wednesday (Christian) – March 2, 2022 (more here) Lent (Christian) – March 2 – April 14, 2022 (A humorous take) Purim begins (Jewish) – March 16 – 17, 2022 (more here &...
From Judith Hogan, Director of Religious Education “The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.” —Peter L. Berger Greetings Everyone! Happy November! This month we look to Soul Matters as we explore the ways in which our times call us to “Hold History.” There are four ways...
As we prepare to emerge from our COVID cocoons, thinking once again about gathering together in covenant, in-person, and online, we must acknowledge that the way we have been doing Religious Education (RE), will not work for the imminent future. Our first priority is to re-learn how to be together in community, and to allow...
