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SWORDS TO PLOWSHARES Transforming Guns into Garden Tools Saturday, November 12 11:00 – 1:00 Guthrie Center, 2 Van Deusenville Rd, Great Barrington, MA 01230 To read an additional article from The Berkshire Eagle click here “We are people passionate about gun safety and the value of gun buybacks to remove unwanted guns from homes and neighborhoods. […]

The Rev. Jenny Gregg Asks Us for Help

Jennifer has been the Director of the Berkshire Servant Leadership Center since its beginning in 2007 and founding Vice President of BIO, Berkshires Interfaith Organizing, in 2014. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work from Elmira College, and a Masters in Divinity from Berkley Divinity School at Yale University. She currently holds outdoor services each Sunday, in […]

Time is Precious

This short story from the Gospel according to Luke is one that we have heard told many times. Jesus comes to a village and is welcomed by a woman named Martha, who invites Jesus, and we must assume, his followers into her home. As soon as Jesus enters, Martha gets busy preparing the hospitality that […]

The Light that Accompanies Us

4 “O mighty King, lover of justice, you have established equity; * you have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.” 5 Proclaim the greatness of the Lord our God and fall down before his footstool; * he is the Holy One. (Psalm 99) This is a shining kind of day. Today, the last Sunday in Epiphany is known […]

Louis Seymour Zimmerman–A Reflection by Frank Zimmerman

Dad was the eternal optimist. To his longest friends and siblings, I suspect annoyingly so. He always carried with him a mound of statistics on any subject to demonstrate how the world was glorious and getting even better. From stats on declining world hunger and child mortality to the rise of the global middle class […]

Choose Life

1 Happy are they whose way is blameless, * who walk in the law of the Lord! 2 Happy are they who observe his decrees * and seek him with all their hearts!  (Psalm 119:1-2) Every moment of every day we make choices. We make choices about what we eat, what we wear, how we spend our […]

The Reverend William J. Eakins Sermons from 2014

____________________________________________________________________________________________ The Reverend William J. Eakins on June 29, 2014, Proper 8, Year A The Collect we prayed this morning begins: “Almighty God, you have built your church upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone.”  I don’t think there has ever been a time in the history of […]