Friends,

As we anticipate fall and pumpkin spice everything, Pastor Dick and I are creating a new sermon series to begin in October based on Francis Collins’ book The Road to Wisdom: On Truth, Science, Faith, and Trust.  Francis Collins, MD, PhD is a physician-geneticist and the former director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) who served under three presidents (2009-2021).  You may also associate his name with the Human Genome Project as well as the New Your Times bestseller The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief.  

In The Road to Wisdom, Dr. Collins, a committed Christian, addresses divisive problems of our time: distrust of pubic health, partisanship, racism, response to climate change, and threats to our democracy.  He presents us with four core sources of judgement and clear thinking: truth, science, faith, and trust.  Our sermons through October and the first half of November will flow as follows:

October 5: Part I, Wisdom for Troubled Times, an Introduction (John 14:1)

October 12: Part II,Truth is Not Negotiable (John 8:32-38)

October 19: Part III, The Limits and Blessings of Science (Psalm 8)

October 26: Part IV, Faith instead of Fads (Hebrews 11:1-3)

November 2:  Part V, Truth without GPS (Psalm 37:1-4)

November 9: Part VI, Specific Hope (Colossians 1:27)

Be sure to join us in worship (or tune in on line) to hear more about how people of faith have been particularly hard hit by misinformation, how we have lost track of our sources of wisdom, and how politics on the left and the right instead became our touchstone.  The good news is that we can indeed reclaim wisdom to help us resolve the dilemmas that we all face in our lives. 

See you on Sunday!

Sandi