Spirituality

United Church: Appeal For Donations To Mission Possible

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UCLA News:

Mission Possible is one of the missions that the United Church of Los Alamos has supported since the 1980s. Mission Possible is a Christian mission devoted to bringing the Gospel, food, health care, and hope to people in Eastern Europe.

Mission Possible has been especially busy in Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion. Mission Possible urgently needs additional funds to continue this work as the destruction by the Russian invasion continues. Mission Possible’s website, at www.mp.org has more information about their work and current needs.

A recent message from Addie Read More

Fr. Glenn: Reconciling Visions

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By Fr. Glenn Jones:

Sometimes it seems that our society is entrenched in two camps: the “conservative/rigid”, and the “liberal/progressive”. We need only turn on or click on the news to see this being played out daily.

In his book “A Conflict of Visions”, Thomas Sowell outlines many of the differences between experience and reason, between what a scientist may recognize as between the empirical/experimental and theoretical, and what Mr. Sowell categorizes as “constrained” and “unconstrained” visions

The constrained vision stems from reliance on “the norm”—the collective experience Read More

Los Alamos Congregations Join Colores United Donation Drive To Support Asylum Seekers

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By CATHLEEN SCHALLER
Los Alamos

… Donation boxes are available outside Unitarian Church and United Church, Pajarito Ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and Los Alamos Jewish Center also will collect donations among their congregations.

National news sources are full of stories of busloads of asylum seekers arriving in New York, Chicago and Washington, D.C. Political controversy puts these immigrants, and the cities hosting them, squarely into the spotlight.

Not making national news? The relatively small town of Deming, New Mexico (population 14,083). But something Read More

Christian Church In Los Alamos Hosts Aloha Sunday

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Christian Church of Los Alamos hosts annual ‘Aloha Sunday’ Worship Service and luncheon Sunday. Courtesy/CCLA

Christian Church of Los Alamos News:

The Christian Church of Los Alamos is hosting its annual “Aloha Sunday” Worship Service and luncheon.

“Aloha Sunday” is 10:30 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 18.

“Hula Mai Ka Lani” (a Hula Worship team) will lead the music portion of the worship with traditional hula. Barefoot, they wear flowing traditional dress with colorful flowers pinned into their hair. They will not be dancing to entertain, but to worship. In the Polynesian tradition it is not just the Read More

Memorial Service: Loring Cox, Jr. FBC-Los Alamos Sept.14

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Loring Cox, Jr. April 24, 1919 – Dec. 29, 2020 

COMMUNITY News:

Memorial Services in celebration of the life of Loring Cox, Jr., a recipient of Los Alamos’s Living Treasure award, proud veteran and a founding member of First Baptist Church – Los Alamos will be held 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept.14, at the church at 2200 Diamond Dr. Read More

Fr. Glenn: Security Abiding

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By Fr. Glenn Jones:

As we come to its anniversary, it’s hard to believe it’s been 21 years since 9/11. A whole new generation has been reared since that time, knowing that unforgettable day only as an event in history, while the images of those two towers burning, then collapsing, are etched deeply into the memories of we who are older. The smoking gash in the Pentagon, and smoldering debris in a Pennsylvania field. Of twisted wreckage, dust-covered survivors emerging ghostly from the clouds of toxic dust, and of the horror of a nation and a world.

Also, a few days ago, Queen Elizabeth traveled into Read More

All Shall Be Well: Happy Shall They Be?

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Clergy from left, Deacon Cynthia Biddlecomb, retired; Pastor Nicolé Ferry, Assistant Rector Lynn Finnegan and Pastor Deb Church. Courtesy photo

By REVEREND LYNN FINNEGAN
The Episcopal Church of the Holy Faith
Santa Fe

“Happy shall they be who take your little ones and dash them against the rock!” This brutally descriptive sentence is found … in the Bible. What? When I first encountered this language in the Book of Psalms, a collection of ancient Hebrew sacred songs and poems found in the Old Testament, I cringed. So graphic. So violent. So not what I expected to read in the Bible. This last Read More

Unitarian Church To Host Forum On Ukraine Sunday

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Unitarian Church News:

The Unitarian Church of Los Alamos will sponsor a 45-minute forum at 11:45 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 11 in the sanctuary.

The forum is open to the public following the Sunday service. The topic is ‘Ukraine: The sixth month of a three-day war’, presented by Vitaliy Gyrya.

Gyrya grew up in Kharkov, Ukraine where he still has friends and family. He has lived in the U.S. for more than two decades and lived and worked in Los Alamos for the last 10 years.

When Russia began a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, he sought up-to-date information but said that he found the news media seriously uninformed Read More

Rotary Club Of Los Alamos Hosts ‘Meals Of Hope’ With Kiwanis & Lions Clubs At Crossroads Bible Church Sept. 17

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The Rotary Club of Los Alamos welcomes the community to pack meals Saturday, Sept. 17 at Crossroads Bible Church to help alleviate hunger in Northern New Mexico. Volunteers needed! Courtesy photo

By LINDA HULL
Vice President
Rotary Club of Los Alamos

The community is cordially invited to join the Rotary Club of Los Alamos once again to pack thousands of meals to help alleviate hunger in Northern New Mexico. 

In celebration of Rotary International’s Service week, Sept. 11-17, the Rotary Club of Los Alamos has invited our local Kiwanis and Lions clubs to join us in an even broader community-wide Read More

Learn About Scouting At Open House At IHM Sept. 13

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Local scouts at a recent recruitment event at Los Alamos High School. Courtesy photo

Scouting News:

Interested families of Los Alamos and White Rock are invited to an Open House to see if Scouting is a good fit.

The Open House is an informational night, 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 13, in the Parish Hall at Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church in Los Alamos.

Representatives from various scout units in Los Alamos will be on hand to answer questions and also connect folks with other scouting organizations that are not Scouts BSA.

In the words of Baden Powell, the founder of the modern Scouting movement, Read More