Yes! We're Open: Living Faith with Needham UCC
Rev. John MacIver Gage uses insight, humor, hard truth and amazing grace to help us make sense of our Christian faith in our daily life and vice-versa. The Congregational Church of Needham is a radically inclusive, justice-seeking Christian community, a member congregation of the United Church of Christ denominational family. Join us for worship LIVE! via Zoom Sundays @ 10am. Connection info and more at www.NeedhamUCC.org.
Yes! We're Open: Living Faith with Needham UCC
Oubliette (March 22, 2026)
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ou·bli·ette (ˌü-blē-ˈet) noun, a dungeon with an opening only at the top; from the French, oublier, to forget (related to oblivion)
When their brother Lazarus died, it may have seemed to Mary and Martha that God didn’t care, that Jesus had forgotten him, and them. But Jesus never forgets anyone, and God’s eye isn’t just on the sparrow but on each of us, particularly those the world might prefer to forget: the last, the least, the lost, the lonely, the dying, and the dead. Jesus weeps with us and holds us close until our own resurrection arrives. (John 11:1-45)
At the heart of this reflection is the poem "Lazarus" by Edward Arlington Robinson.
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