Dr. John Tamilio III, Pastor  © 2025, Dr. Tamilio This past week, I came across a video on social media that caught my attention.  Some of the videos I see out there are funny, some are informative, and some make me shake my head and just about lose faith in humanity.  This one, though, was […]

Rev. Dr. John Tamilio III, Pastor © 2025, Dr. Tamilio Palm Sunday is the start of Holy Week.  If you know the narrative, then you know a lot happens in just a few short days.  Jesus enters Jerusalem and is greeted with thunderous applause.  People lined the streets.  They waved palm branches the way people […]

The Rev. Dr. John Tamilio III, Pastor © 2025, Dr. Tamilio When my daughter was born, there was a large amount of meconium in the amitotic fluid.  Translation: she had a bowel movement while in utero.  This can be a serious issue if any gets into the lungs of the baby.  Immediately after she was […]

The Rev. Dr. John Tamilio III © 2025, Dr. Tamilio  William Johnson Everett was a professor of Christian ethics at Andover Newton Theological School.  He has long since retired, and, instead of writing learned papers detailing the intricacies of Christian moral philosophy, he’s gone fishing, I believe.  I emailed him a year or so ago […]

And so it begins again.  Lent.  Today is the first Sunday of this very sacred season.  More people than usual came to the Ash Wednesday service the other night.  Maybe the times have us focused on the need for the Lenten message: a time of deep introspection; a time to seek absolution for the sins […]

The Rev. Dr. John Tamilio III, Pastor © 2025, Dr. Tamilio The story of the Transfiguration is a strange one.  What’s the point?  Jesus takes his inner circle of disciples up a mountain to be physically transformed before them.  His body and clothing become dazzling white — all aglow.  Moses and Elijah appear as well. […]

The Rev. Dr. John Tamilio III, Pastor  © 2025, Dr. Tamilio Today’s Old Testament reading has a special place in my heart.  I was twenty-four years old.  I had just finished my Master of Arts degree in British and American Literature at Northeastern University.  I should have been applying to Ph.D. programs.  My goal was […]

© 2025, Dr. Tamilio Have you ever wondered why geese fly in “v” formation?  Scientists has figured out why.  As each bird flaps its wings, it creates an uplift for the bird immediately following.  By flying in a V-formation, the whole flock adds at least 71% greater flying range than if each bird flew on […]

Have you ever been asked the question, “If you could pick any three people to have dinner with — living or dead — who would they be?”  Martin Luther King would definitely be on that list for me.  King is one of my spiritual and intellectual heroes.  It is an honor that I earned my […]

The Rev. Dr. John Tamilio III, Pastor  © 2025, Dr. Tamilio “You are my Son, the Beloved; with you I am well pleased.” These are the words that God spoke from the heavens when Jesus emerged from the Jordan River when he was baptized by his second cousin John the Baptist.  This event marks the […]