Informed compassion
Here’s another sign of the strange times we live in: Today, while driving back and forth to Lima Mennonite Church for a CDC pastor peer meeting, listening to the recent five part series by On the Media called Busted: America’s Poverty Myths, I found myself being encouraged by these…
Esther on My Mind
“What am I willing to sacrifice to make sanctuary happen?” This was the question that was posed to the audience toward the end of the workshop put on by the Central Ohio Worker Center last evening. A crowd of more than 300 people (including many of you) crammed into our…
Mis-remembering King
In August of 1966, three years after his “I have a dream speech,” a Gallup poll found that Martin Luther King Jr’s national popularity had fallen to a 63% negative rating. Only 12% of all Americans registered a “highly favorable” opinion of King. In the remaining year and a…
2016 at CMC
What a wild, and sometimes tumultuous ride 2016 was. Before we get too far along in 2017, here’s a snapshot of what happened in the life of this congregation last year. It was a full year. We intentionally confronted racism and affirmed that black lives matter. We did some work…
Our Collective Wisdom
At the end of the month on January 29, we will once again be holding a Coming of Age celebration to bless and be blessed by the gifts of some of the youth in our congregation. This year we will be celebrating specifically with four of our young people as…
