A Word from Laura: Music Director Search Update
Western Members and Friends,
The search committee for a new music director has been meeting, and I wanted to update all of you! The committee, chaired by Greta Morris, includes Carlton Brose, Alec Resurreccion, Letitia Obeng Roche and myself. Paul Vasile has helped to resource our group, guiding a discussion of what we hope for, incorporating thoughts from our leadership retreat and position descriptions from other churches.
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Free Inquiry Class - March 12
This Sunday we have Sam Hendricks leading the class in a discussion about the article linked below. Here are Sam's comments:
We will be discussing a 2018 article by Kjell Lejon, a Swedish academic, entitled "From Civil Religion to Presidential Public Theology - A Re-evaluation of the American Civil Religion Phenomenon. The Case of George H.W. Bush." A link to the article is attached.
https://link.edgepilot.com/s/7a41d5c8/4-j96glGrkujaZj9f9gxTw?u=https://revistia.com/files/articles/ejms_v3_i4_18/Lejon.pdf
A Word from Laura: Welcome Ariel
Ariel Nathanson Bolinja will accompany the choir and congregation on Sundays this spring as we look for a permanent music director. Ariel graduated from University of Hartford's The Hartt School in 2018 with a Master of Music degree in Piano Performance with a Pedagogy Emphasis and was inducted into the Pi Kappa Lambda music honor society.
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A Word from Laura
Western friends,
On behalf of the session, we appreciate all who turned out for our congregational conversation last week. You heard and discussed around tables aspects of our financial situation and some of the session’s thinking and decisions about moving forward.
Part of this process involves making changes to our congregational staffing model; you will be hearing more about this in the days to come. The most difficult aspect of these changes is the decision not to have a full-time administrative assistant. As a result, Shenella McGaskey will be leaving this role at the end of March.
Free Inquiry Class will consider “The Political Influence of Charismatic and Evangelical Christians.”
On Sunday, February 19, the Free Inquiry Class will consider “The Political Influence of Charismatic and Evangelical Christians.”
The session, beginning at 9:45 am in the Conference Room and on line, will be led by Matthew D. Taylor, a Protestant Scholar at the Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies …