This past Saturday our family attended Mennonite Arts Weekend in Cincinnati, a biennial event we haven’t missed since 2008.  It’s always a beautiful mix of art, inspiration, food, and connection.  Mark your calendars for February 5-7, 2027.  One of my favorite presenters was the poet Julia Baker.  She talked about poetry as a…

This week’s blog comes from Pastoral Intern Bethany Davey I have been thinking a lot about risk. Since the inauguration, the day-to-day risks assumed by those of us who are immigrants, transgender, nonbinary and queer is heightened. The threat of violence is palpable, and there is fear in the air….

Yesterday, January 21, was the big anniversary, 500 years. On that day in 1525, a small group gathered in a home in Zurich, Switzerland.  The City Council had just passed an ordinance forbidding further deliberation on baptism, requiring dissidents to have their children baptized and join the official Reformed church. …

I have come to appreciate annual cycles.  The church calendar and school calendar are firmly lodged into my life rhythms.  Both of these offer periods of engagement and rest, holy days and extended stretches of ordinary time.      And there is the calendar year.  Our (mostly) annual trip to Kansas…

Now that we have the busyness of the holiday season behind us but still plenty of Winter ahead of us, perhaps it is finally a good time to lean into the gift that these months can offer us: chances to slow down, to get cozy, and to reflect on where…