THROUGH THE LABYRINTH
REV. KENNETH FULLER
 
 
 
Reverend Kenneth Fuller was called as Pastor and Teacher of Cleveland Park Church in 1994.   Known for his thought-provoking sermons, he is a graduate of Davidson College and Harvard University Divinity School. Pastor Fuller has served churches in Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. He is a fellow of the College of Preachers at the Washington National Cathedral an avid outdoorsman and an active Freemason.  New and Interesting Books I am Reading Forty Signs of Rain; Fifty Degrees Below; Sixty Days and Counting by Kim Stanley Robinson This global warming doomsday trilogy links politics, technology, and spirituality in a complex narrative in the near future plagued by rising seas, weather extremes and a quickly melting polar ice. John Brown, Abolitionist by David S. Reynolds “To see John Brown as the main link between African American Culture and the Civil War is to recognize that blacks were prime movers in American history.” 1967 by Tom Segev “This is an account of the year of the Six Day War and its impact upon Israel and all the Middle East. It is an important account that should be read by everyone who has hopes for a peaceful solution to the present conflict in Israel Palestine.  Pastor Ken Fuller's Study Phone 202-362-3398
 
 
In the Hospital Room
 
Last week I was hospitalized.  We didn’t know if the condition would be changed by best rest and fasting or if surgery was necessary.  Late in the afternoon of my first day, I was visited by our Area Conference Minister Kwame Osei Reed and one of my colleagues Rev. Anne Holmes.  While I was very tired and in much pain, their presence lifted my spirits.  They quietly listened to Suzy and me, expressed their concerns for us both and for some of our family members who are experiencing health
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Monday, March 3, 2008
CHURCH CELEBRATES
 
Many well intended people seek to reduce the church to fit their own agenda, understanding and disposition. Hence the true, but incomplete saying “the Church is mission.”  It is of course called to mission, to the service of others.  The Church is also the place of teaching and learning the word of God.  It is a place of safety and sanctuary.  We meet the psychological and emotional needs of our members. The Church is a place of healing.
While all the above are each essential to the nature and
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Thursday, February 21, 2008
The Highs and Lows of Lent
 
I had a conversation with one of our younger members the other day about Lent.  She was talking about giving up a food item.  So we talked about what Lent means in our tradition.
Congregationalists have never made it an item of piety to enter into deprivation for its own sake.  Nor do we encourage spiritual desperation and negativity.  
We think that rather than a season of deprivation, that the sacrifice that best serves us as we approach the high point of Easter, is that of giving.
If we
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A Strange Christmas
 
On the Saturday before Christmas, my wife’s mother suffered a stroke.  She is recovering well and we hope she will be home soon.  Christmas was not as we had planned.  Susan spend hours and days with her brothers in caring for her Mom.  It was time well spent, even if spent differently than we had imagined.  
Instead of a Christmas Eve dinner with several family members, Dana Fuller, my nephew, and I attended our Fireside Service and then had a meal of Fondue and watched that old Christmas
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