By traditional standards, this Lent has not gone well for me. The only penance or additional practice I took on was adding Wednesday as a fast day, and even that entails little more than purposefully skipping lunch. I was faithful to it, sure, but I fast most Fridays of the year anyway, so it wasn’tContinue reading “March 26, 2021 – Pastor’s Note”

With Spring weather beginning, I recently took a couple of walks around Bellingham, which were really the first walking tours I had taken since I arrived here (apart from the periodic trips to Arliss’s). I have been particularly fascinated by Whatcom Creek and following it from Bellingham Bay inland.  This, of course, led me toContinue reading “March 19, 2021 – Pastor’s Note”