[FRIAM] The last Lighthouse Keeper in America
Frank Wimberly
wimberly3 at gmail.com
Tue Dec 26 09:19:09 EST 2023
p.s. The pastor is a woman.
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Frank C. Wimberly
140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
Santa Fe, NM 87505
505 670-9918
Santa Fe, NM
On Tue, Dec 26, 2023, 7:17 AM Frank Wimberly <wimberly3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Jochen,
>
> We live across the street from the United Church of Santa Fe. It is a
> member of the United Church of Christ denomination (UCC). A friend whose
> father was a Presbyterian minister said that UCC informally means
> "Unitarians Concerned with Christ". The point is that their beliefs are
> universalist.
>
> Despite living so close to the church for 25+ years I have attended fewer
> than five services there, including Joe Traub's funeral. After dinner on
> Christmas Eve I impulsively said, "Why don't we go to the service at
> 5:00?" That service was focused on children. Our group included my Jewish
> wife, a Muslim granddaughter (7), and our daughter and son-in-law who are
> Evangelical Christians. The latter have a daughter who is three. Our 11
> year old grandson says he has a relationship with God and he doesn't want
> anyone to tell him what it should be. I am a fallen-away Presbyterian.
>
> It was a beautiful and well attended service. After the pastor told the
> story that Franz Gruber discovered that his church's organ wouldn't play
> because of damage caused by mice so he asked the organist to play a guitar
> to accompany a poem that he, Gruber, had written. The result was the
> Christmas carol "Silent Night". Then that moment was reiterated here by
> the choir director playing that carol on his guitar while the congregation
> sang.
>
> The point is that it was, by my lights, a lovely service. The church's
> parking lot is filled to capacity every Sunday morning.
>
> I am optimistic but probably won't attend services there regularly.
>
> Frank
>
> ---
> Frank C. Wimberly
> 140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
> Santa Fe, NM 87505
>
> 505 670-9918
> Santa Fe, NM
>
> On Tue, Dec 26, 2023, 3:20 AM David Eric Smith <desmith at santafe.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> I increasingly think the last keeper of democracy in the U.S. will be a
>> black woman. Everybody else seems afraid. The perennial complaints about
>> Neville Chamberlain come to mind.
>>
>> But still, best wishes for the New Year to you Jochen and to All.
>>
>> Eric
>>
>>
>>
>> > On Dec 26, 2023, at 4:39 AM, Jochen Fromm <jofr at cas-group.net> wrote:
>> >
>> > Merry Christmas from Berlin! It must be Farolitos time now in Santa Fe,
>> right? Here in Berlin we have plenty of Christmas markets where you get hot
>> mulled wine. At Christmas Eve I was in the "American Church of Berlin"
>> which is over 120 years old. It was mostly empty though.
>> >
>> > While Donald Trump embodies the bad site of America - adultery, fraud,
>> hate, lies, greed and the rest of the mortal sins - the church classically
>> represents the good side of America: the selfless care for others,
>> Christian values and the feeling that everybody is welcome.
>> >
>> > It is sad to see churches slowly dying out like the old lighthouses at
>> the coast which showed ships the right way for centuries but are now
>> turning into mere tourist attractions. Will democracy die out together with
>> the churches too?
>> >
>> > This article about the last lighthouse keeper in the U.S. makes me
>> wonder if president Biden will be the last keeper of democracy in America
>> before the land falls into the darkness of a Trump dictatorship. What do
>> you think?
>> >
>> https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/11/06/the-last-lighthouse-keeper-in-america
>> >
>> > -J.
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