Palestine Resolution
During his sermon on Sunday Joel Call talked about the “Response to Ongoing Suffering in Palestine Resolution,” passed unanimously by Central District Conference delegates in June. Among other things, the resolution calls on CDC congregations to “commit to divesting ourselves financially from the U.S.-backed Israeli genocide and theologically from Christian…
New and Old
“How are you today?” “I’m great. I work in paradise.” I overheard this brief exchange Monday morning. I was in West Virginia with our youngest daughter, Ila, and 40 other folks getting suited up for a rafting trip down the New River. The reply came from one of our guides,…
State of the Conference (Central District Conference Annual Meeting)
2026 State of the Conference address| Central District Conference Annual Meeting | June 26 | Harrisonburg, VA Joel Miller, Pastor of Columbus Mennonite Church, CDC Board President My introduction to CDC came 20 years ago this summer. I was fresh out of seminary, AMBS. That was when the A stood…
An Annual Gathering
Tomorrow ten of us from CMC will be driving down to Harrisonburg, Virginia for the Central District Conference annual meeting. We’re one of 45 congregations in the conference, ranging from St. Paul, Minnesota to Miami, Florida. CDC also now has six “provisional members,” new communities of faith exploring affiliation with…
Animal Interruptions
Deer and Canada Geese aren’t exactly favorites of the animal world, at least not in urban settings where ecological imbalances enable their proliferation. We’ve lost quite a few young trees and too-many-to-count landscaping plants to deer. Geese have never met a sidewalk they didn’t poop on. But lately I’ve found…