... landing at Plymouth Rock. Another entire wall is covered with magnificent Tiffany windows, thirty feet high. They portray William Brewster delivering the first sermon in New England. His kneeling congregation is dressed somberly in gray and brown. ... courage to act on your commitments. The Mayflower Pilgrims’ courage was clear when they left Holland. This little band, described by William Bradford as "seventy menfolk and women, 32 good children, a handful of cocks and hens, and two dogs" had no illusions ...
... as much a minister as any of the ordained persons on the staff. That’s the reason I celebrate the presence of Mike Brewster. He knows what it means to sing the He knows that feeble songs and spiritless music is a primary sign of a powerless ... no longer powerful in its devastation. The threat is always there, but the power of it doesn’t devastate and immobilize us. When Charles Williams died, C. S. Lewis said, “What death did to him was nothing compared to what he did to the idea of death.” Lewis knew ...
