Have Faith: ‘Walking Together Apart’
It was apparent when the coronavirus hit that Islanders who ordinarily wouldn't visit the Food Pantry, Family to Family, or M.V. Food Baskets were lined up in their cars to accept food donations. All...
Have Faith: There is a season
From the time I was very little, I can remember wanting to be around adults, anyone older than myself. My cousins would go off to play on the swing set or for a game...
Have Faith: Prayer
I Google just about everything, Google being a verb in this case. I Google people I already know and those I don't know. During this pandemic, I Googled how to trim my own bangs,...
Have Faith: One woman’s Judaism
One of the perks of writing this column is the chance to visit with friends and talk to them about their faith. No matter how “different” religious beliefs appear, there's almost always common ground....
Have Faith: Sundays at the Tabernacle
This year marks the 185th anniversary of religious services held at the Tabernacle in Oak Bluffs, and the Spiritual Life committee of the Martha's Vineyard Camp Meeting Association (MVCMA) wasn't about to let the...
Have Faith: Everyone has a story
For a man who relishes his past experience working with missionaries in such far-flung places as Africa and Russia, the Rev. Dr. Leo Christian finds his time on Martha's Vineyard a blessing. He is...
Have Faith: The time has come
I’ve been thinking, and who hasn’t these days, about racism and how each of us can work deliberately and earnestly to change the fear, anger, hurt, and hate that’s happening right now into the...
Have Faith: Finding community
Worship services look very different these days. Pastors are recording services and daily messages to view on YouTube or Facebook or Zoom, and during the coronavirus pandemic they reach out to parishioners more often...
Have Faith: Righting wrongs
Back when Europeans first landed in the New World in 1620, there were 69 tribes in the Wampanoag Nation, extending from Provincetown to Narragansett Bay, including Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. Now there are three...
Have Faith: When hope feels far away
By now we're all used to the idea that most religious services are being held remotely. But that doesn't mean we don't miss the physical human connection we feel when we're gathered in community....
Have Faith: Hope and Resurrection
It's been an interesting Easter season. It's like the coronavirus put us all in a state of perpetual Lent. Some of us are enjoying this time of social distancing — either the solitude or...
Have Faith: Hold on
This virus has turned things upside down. I still have to figure out how to pick up two of my son's medications that weren't available last week. I know the folks at Leslie's Pharmacy...
Have Faith: Spirituality and addiction
For anyone dealing with addiction, whether it is their own or that of a friend or family member, relying on some kind of faith in a higher power can be critical. Then there are...
Have Faith: Lent is here, time to take stock
Every year when Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the Lenten season for Christians, I wonder what to write. It’s a struggle, because what Lent really means to me is a time to go...
Have Faith: Loosen, empty, push
The Rev. Hyuk Seonwoo became the new pastor at Trinity United Methodist Church in the middle of the mad summer season. Before long, he was leading Tree of Life Tai Chi classes, and I...
Have faith: Life lessons
Every once in awhile, God gives me a little nudge in one direction or another. It started this time with an email from Betsy Burmeister, the recreation director at Windemere. She wrote to tell...
Have Faith: Remembering Dr. King
I was driving with my friend Nancy the other day, and we were catching up on what we'd been up to when she said something like, “I didn't make it to church Sunday but...
Have Faith: New year, new hope
When I was a kid, we celebrated the new year with dancing and partying. I can’t remember the last time I did that, probably once I was old enough to realize drinking and driving...
Christmas and Hanukkah services
Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center, Vineyard Haven
Hanukkah Celebration, Sunday, Dec. 22, 4 to 6:30 pm.
First Congregational Church, West Tisbury
Christmas Pageant at the Ag Hall, Tuesday, Dec. 24, 5 pm
Christmas Eve Candlelight Service, Tuesday, Dec. 24,...
Have Faith: Welcome!
The Federated Church in Edgartown has called a new settled pastor, the Rev. Richard DenUyl Jr., who arrived from Connecticut just a few weeks ago. Before then, he had only sailed into our harbors,...