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This week's essay

"10 Harsh Realities of Being 77" — and the Hope Stoicism Cannot Supply

A retiree's viral video offers honest, secular-Stoic wisdom about aging. We weigh it against the catechisms — and find the divergence is total at the level of hope.

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From the elders · discussion of the week

"What are you building now that you will not live to see finished — and who are you training to finish it?"

Posed by Elder MacRae, drawing on Psalm 78 and 1 Corinthians 15:58. Share your answer in the Fellowship Hall.

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Life story of the month

Forty-one years in the pulpit, and what I'd preach differently

Rev. Thomas Baird (ret.), 81, looks back on four decades of ministry in rural Mississippi — and the sermon he wishes he'd preached at thirty-five. Read his story