Today’s blog is written by Bethany Davey, now serving as a CMC pastoral intern. I know it’s fall—or, nearly fall—when I hear crickets chirping in the daytime hours. Their song, alongside the smell of musty prairie grasses and the subtle lessening of the sun’s summer intensity alert my body that…

These next three weeks of worship will complete a summer series, honor an anniversary, and set a trajectory that will take us all the way into Advent.  Here is a preview of these Sundays: August 25 | Accessibility and Inclusivity, Communion I can’t think of a more liturgically rich way…

I (and Abbie) just finished the audiobook No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model, by Richard C. Schwartz.  How’s that for some light vacation road-trip earbud sharing?  Dr. Schwartz has been developing this model over the course of his professional life, now widely…

This is the final week of the summer softball season for Ila’s NCIL league that plays at Whetstone Park.  I’ve been co-coaching along with several other parents since early May.  We’ve lost more games than we’ve won, and the 9-11 age range makes for quite a developmental spread.  But this…

Last Sunday Joel made a very brief reference in his sermon to the recently released movie, Inside Out 2 as a way to illustrate that you could take in the second part of something (his two-part sermon) without the first, but you’d probably be missing out on some things. When…