Strangers as Friends 3/26/2022 Rev. Karen Fitz La Barge, North Kent Presbyterian Church The images are haunting. Since the beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, 3.7 million Ukrainians have fled their country for their lives. 10 million Ukrainian people are displaced inside Ukraine, searching for safety from the fighting and the shelling of civilian buildings. more »
Restoration! 2/14/2022 Rev. Karen Fitz La Barge There is a British television show on Netflix called, “The Repair Shop”. filmed at an open air museum, in an old thatched roof barn from the late 17th or 18th century. Inside the barn is a regular cast of expert craftspeople and specialists. In series 2, episode more »
Eph 4:22 – 24 You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to putoff your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;tobe made new in the attitude of your minds; and toput on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness andholiness. The week after Christmas seemed to me to be a more »
December, 10 2021 by Rev. Karen Fitz La Barge Have you ever heard of Saint Lucia’s Day? This Nordic Christmas tradition involves young people dressed in white, with the girls all wearing red sashes and carrying candles. One young woman is selected to portray St. Lucia and to wear a wreath with seven candles more »
I have never been on the “Dark Web.” The internet that we all typically use every day is the “Clear Web”, the websites that we access with our Chrome, Firefox or Bing search engines. Below that, with much more data is the “Deep Web”, where all of our photos, files and all the data more »
It is that time of year when the Monarch butterflies in our area begin their five-week migration from the north to their overwinter sites in Florida and Mexico. The life of a Monarch starts out as a tiny egg, typically laid on the underside of a milkweed leaf. Once the egg hatches into a little more »
“Lift Every Voice and Sing” An Anthem for All On February 12, 1900, at the segregated Edwin M. Stanton School in Jacksonville, Florida,preparations were being made to commemorate the birthday of President AbrahamLincoln. The school was charged with anticipation because Booker T Washington, the American educator, author, orator and advisor to Presidents was to visit more »
On Valentine’s Day weekend, the Senate concluded the second impeachment trial of Donald J. Trump, the 45th president of the United States. As the votes of “guilty” or “not guilty” were coming in, the political division in our country was obvious. It is no secret that these two politically opposed sides have often thought and more »
What did you GIVE this Christmas? 12/7/2020 Rev. Karen Fitz La Barge There once was a man who was poor in coin, but rich with the gift of three daughters. As the years went on with the man barely making enough to feed and clothe his family, he knew the usual way of things was for more »
How Liberal and Conservative Christians Can Dialogueby Rev. Karen Fitz La Barge, 10/15/2020 It is no secret that political disagreements often break apart our relationships, families and churches. Christians are human and our passionately held beliefs can boil over with emotions that can easily crush our attempts to love our neighbors with self-sacrificial love. Is more »
