A Hanukkah Card for Donna that has been coming all year; I try to read it every day and please feel invited to subscrbe

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Date: Friday, December 8, 2023
Subject: This Hanukkah Prayer Is About Courage and Miracles
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Al Hanisim reminds us of the role we play in our own modern miracles.

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Silent Film

From Donna's Library, The Articles of Faith from the founding of the Church

I took the time in the church library while Donna was reshelving books to look for the Articles of Faith from when the church was established. Between services, I said "hello" to Mark,the present minister, who was busy and remarked that we still use the Articles of Faith today, "I know that well." The first minister of the Park Street Church,Boston was Edward Griffin, also the first Phi Beta Kappa student at Yale, and apparently Donna was Phi Beta before I met her. His particular theme was preaching against something referred to as the New Divinity. I was surfing today and found that we are listed by the National Historical Park Service along with our adjacent Granary Burial Ground. The president at the time was James Madison. Below is a historical perspective.