Susan Cooke Kittredge
CommentatorSusan Cooke Kittredge is Associate Pastor of the Charlotte Congregational Church.
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There鈥檚 a short book in the Bible called Lamentations; it鈥檚 a collection of poems written after the destruction of Jerusalem in roughly 587 BC. But the鈥�
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I don鈥檛 usually answer calls from 800 numbers, but for some reason I did a couple of weeks ago. Adding to my tendency to dismiss these calls, it was an鈥�
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I used to cross country ski for hours from my front door. Then we moved to the Champlain Valley, where I鈥檝e not yet gotten in the habit of driving to鈥�
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Here we are at the time of year when we roll out family traditions with bravado. For many this is a great solace and comfort, but for others it can be a鈥�
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How fitting that Pope Francis came to the United States from Cuba, a country with whom we have a long history of friction and distrust. It was indicative鈥�
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Until 1967 Memorial Day was called 鈥淒ecoration Day.鈥� The tradition of placing flowers on the graves of lost soldiers is an ancient one dating back to long鈥�
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I was recently at a gathering where people talked about their memories of Easter. Granted, it was a group of church folk, so stories of Easter dresses,鈥�
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Winter in the North Country requires that we live a bit on heightened alert. We shrink from those around us who are sneezing and coughing; judiciously鈥�
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Our sons grew up watching Star Wars and constructing elaborate space ships out of Legos - not uncommon for young boys in the late 1970s and 80s. One of鈥� -
By the time the passengers of the Mayflower finally got off the ship for good in March of 1621, they had been on the boat for seven months. They had鈥�
