5.0/5.0 Quality of Service: 5.0 Responsiveness: 5.0 Professionalism: 5.0 Value: 5.0 Flexibility: 5.0 Todd said… Alan is one of the most wonderful human beings that we’ve ever come in touch with. His unique charisma kept us full of ideas and gave us ways to personalize our ceremony. It was a pleasure getting to know him… Continue reading
I truly hoped that I would settle on a “lighter” theme for this Labor Day weekend; but the “vengeance” theme remained firmly settled in my mind. Maybe, somehow, it is appropriate… we take this on as our “Christian Labor” for the months to come? The text is below the audio of the sermon… Sermon preached… Continue reading
I have never known a Sunday when the appointed lessons (Old and New Testament, Psalm and Gospel) all presented a common theme – the universality of grace, the impossibility of bigotry. There is so very much to think and say and do about so-called “systemic/institutional” sin but I cannot avoid the truth of the Gospel… Continue reading
I am so encouraged to receive and read this review… it was published on Wedding Wire. Nicole strikes all the chords that are music to my ears. Wonderful! Proud and affirmed to read this recent review… Quality of Service: 5.0 Responsiveness: 5.0 Professionalism: 5.0 Value: 5.0 Flexibility: 5.0 Nicole said… My husband and I are… Continue reading
When talking with couples about the nature of their ceremony often the question of “God-talk” arises. Couples generally will define themselves as spiritual but, for various reasons, have hesitations about institutional religion (but then, who doesn’t?). Jackie and Nate chose as their central reading that was packed with spiritual significance; it was a joyful… Continue reading
The experience of “mixed feelings” is, I believe, intricately linked to the whole business of unrealistic or unconsidered expectations. But, frankly, though we “can’t live with them” neither can we “live without them” – at least, this side of eternity. So we urgently need someone to rescue us and provide a temporary pause, albeit… Continue reading
This article by the eloquent and engaging Bruce Feiler, published in the Wall Street Journal, is well worth a read (if not two). And what do these archetypal couple teach us – “Constancy… Counterbalance… and A Joint Narrative” Adam & Eve And Us Extracts from Mark Twain’s “Extracts from Adam’s Diary” and “Autobiography of Eve”…… Continue reading
So, this sermon was preached on the day before I begin the 41st year of my ordained ministry. Plymouth, Southampton, Stanstead Abbotts UK followed by… South Dakota, Newport RI and Center City Philadelphia and back to Newport RI. Oh the joys and challenges, the quirks and oddities, the privilege and angst of parish ministry but,… Continue reading
It is a real joy to preach on Trinity Sunday, to remember that Jesus called us to follow Him not… define and understand Him. Underneath the sermon audio is the basis of the preached sermon. Trinity Church, Newport RI; Sunday June 11th (Trinity Sunday) The Reverend Alan Neale; “No Armchair Theologians” Such is the erudition… Continue reading
Below the sermon audio is the text of the sermon; well, it’s what I carried into the pulpit! Sermon preached at Trinity Church Newport RI Sunday June 4th 2017 The Reverend Alan Neale “Drink, drink, drink…” “Go forth into the streets and evangelize, proclaim the Gospel. Remember that the Church was born to go forth,… Continue reading