MCUSA Reflections
Many of you heard some of my thoughts about the MCUSA Convention on Sunday. (If you missed it, you can find the text of my sermon HERE.) As a way of continuing the conversation about our time of discerning together as a denomination, we will be sending out reflections from…
Holy Indifference
It’s church conference/convention season. Last weekend was the Central District Conference annual meeting in Bluffton, Ohio. Next week is the biennial Mennonite Church USA convention, held this year in Orlando, Florida….conveniently close to Harry Potter World, which will be a Christmas in July for our girls. I was so…
“ …to work amongst…”
“Try not to think in terms of superimposing our own tastes and objectives on the lives of others but rather to make our energies and talents available to those who would want us to work amongst them.” — Judith Tokel, meeting notes from the American Addition Neighborhood Council, December…
The results are in…
I know you all have been waiting with bated breath, but wait no longer because the results of the 12 Hymn Nominations are in! But first, I feel like I should acknowledge that these results were not obtained in any real scientific way, and there were probably a number of…