"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places." -- Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

Here's Sunday's Bulletin. Post-Worship, we conclude 'round the Fellowship Hall sofas our four-week discussion of Howard Thurman'sJesus and the Disinherited ... and note on page 5 of our linked Sunday Bulletin our next summer book discussion!

God's "still, small voice." In our broken world -- in the fractured places of our lives: Where do we discover that sound?

The prophet Elijah heard it -- or so he thought. And yet, when we hear what that voice of God instructed him to do ...

Reading this text in context: what to make of this "Word" in our world? Join us for our 10 am Worship, when we conclude the first four-part slice of our Summer Sermon Series, "Our Scriptures: From Taking Them Literally to Taking Them Seriously."

Next Wednesday, July 11 -- 6:30-8:30 pm, La Madeleine Cafe:
"Table Talk" with Art Laffin of DC's Dorothy Day Catholic Worker. Here's Art's "biosketch" -- and on page 2, the same of our July 15 and July 22 pulpit guests, the Rev. Nicole Ball and Jan Moody! La Madeleine address: 7607 Old Georgetown -- one block from the Bethesda Metro. Free parking in BPC's lot, 0.4 miles away -- and the fine folk at La Madeleine will validate your parking for two hours at Metropolitan Garage across from the restaurant (entry off Woodmont).