Speaker: Martin Newhouse

What Would Emerson Say?

Thanks primarily to Robert Richardson’s pathbreaking 1995 biography of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Emerson, The Mind on Fire) we have come to know Emerson at last as his contemporaries, family, and friends actually knew him. For them, he was not “the plaster sage of Concord.” He was an engaged and activist citizen, who took time from … Continue reading What Would Emerson Say?

A Religious Response to the Overturning of Roe v. Wade

With its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, issued in June of this year, the new conservative majority on the Supreme Court deleted with one stroke–and perhaps for the first time in the Court’s history–a fundamental Constitutional guarantee that had been the law of the land for 50 years. The guarantee was that, … Continue reading A Religious Response to the Overturning of Roe v. Wade

Is Religious Liberty Under Attack in this Country Today?

Link for Sunday Worship:   https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship The First Amendment to the United States Constitution states, “Congress shall make no law . . . respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…”  Yet many Americans believe that religious liberty is under attack as never before.  Why do so many believe this to be the case?  Are they right?  Should … Continue reading Is Religious Liberty Under Attack in this Country Today?

Going First

Ministerial Survey – Respond ASAP! https://tinyurl.com/RevHeatherReview2020 Link for Sunday Worship: https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship Join Martin Newhouse for the first of our Summer Worship Services

The Crooked Timber of Humanity

O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie usTo see oursels as ithers see us!It wad frae mony a blunder free us,An’ foolish notion:What airs in dress an’ gait wad lea’e us,An’ ev’n devotion!                  –Robert Burns, “To A Louse, On Seeing One on a Lady’s Bonnet at Church”