Subject: Wrestling with God and Change
Wrestling with God and Change
August 4th, 2023 at 10:25 am EDTDear Hot Metal Community, On Sunday we'll read the story of Jacob wrestling with God (Genesis 32:22-31). If that's not just the prevailing metaphor for faith in my own life, and I think for many of you, then I don't know what is! Jacob is at a ...
The Bike-a-Thon raised over $3,000!
July 28th, 2023 at 1:52 pm EDTDear Hot Metal Community, By now you should have received an email earlier this week announcing that I will be taking another job and transitioning away by the end of August. That letter is attached here. While I know that this announcement ...
A Letter from Pastor Erin
July 24th, 2023 at 4:09 pm EDTJuly 24, 2023 Dear Members and Friends of the Hot Metal Bridge Faith Community, When I started as your pastor in December 2019, there were so many things we could have never anticipated about our time together: a global pandemic, a racial ju ...
Care Closet needs YOU to help restock it! BIKE-A-THON this Sunday!
July 21st, 2023 at 12:48 pm EDTDear Hot Metal Community, On Sunday, our own Megan Lindsey will be preaching! Here's what she has to say about what to expect! This week we'll be looking at scripture in light of a brand new parenting style: low demand parenting. Whether you ...
The Bike-A-Thon is next week!
July 14th, 2023 at 1:34 pm EDTDear Hot Metal Community, This Sunday, we'll continue in the narrative story of Genesis, getting into the nitty gritty of sibling and family dynamics as we turn towards the relationship of Jacob and Esau (Genesis 25:19-34). Maybe because I'm ...
Donate to the Bike-a-Thon!
July 7th, 2023 at 1:00 pm EDTDear Hot Metal Community, This week we'll return to the narrative of Genesis, specifically when Abraham's servant is sent out to find a wife for Isaac. Such stories steeped in a cultural context so vastly different from our own can sometimes f ...
Welcome the least of these
June 30th, 2023 at 12:21 pm EDTDear Hot Metal Community, This long holiday weekend, I suspect many of you will be away, taking advantage of God's creation and the opportunity to see family and friends! Yay! Anticipating a smaller crowd, and the complicated emotions many o ...
Raffle to win Beyonce Tickets!!!
June 23rd, 2023 at 12:50 pm EDTDear Hot Metal Community, This week, we'll continue in our journey through the stories of Genesis - foundational texts not only for our Christian tradition but for our Jewish and Muslim siblings as well. We'll turn briefly from Abraham himse ...
Sign up for Swissvale Pride
June 16th, 2023 at 12:42 pm EDTPastor Erin is still out of the office this week, but will be back on Sunday! Come hear our own clerk of Council, Michael Van Ness, preach a word of grace and love! He'll be weaving together the story of Abraham and Sarah, our complicated fe ...
Call for artists opens June 15th!
June 9th, 2023 at 12:08 pm EDTDear Hot Metal Community, I'll be away on vacation this weekend, and am excited to leave you in the preaching hands of our own Nathan Rosswog! He'll be using the story of God sending Abraham to a new land to reflect on the hero's journey and ...