Holy Week/Year
“And Jesus was a sailor when he walked upon the water…forsaken, almost human, he sank beneath your wisdom like a stone.” – Leonard Cohen, “Suzanne” It’s not too hard to lose track of Jesus during Holy Week. Our Sundays are scheduled such that the parade of Palm Sunday is followed…
Daily Connector | Part VII: Repent. Repair. “Diversity, Inclusion, Equity” | Brent Miller
CMC Daily Connector Friday March 26, 2021 Part VII: Repent. Repair. Real Estate (!?!) “Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity” by Brent Miller Earlier this week I wrote about “Redlining” practices that were commonplace up until the 1968 Fair Housing Act made it illegal. It just so happened that in the latest…
Daily Connector | Part V: Reparations Essay | Joel Copeland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Dc4W91hFPw (This link was Joel’s Sunday presentation, with Joel reading the essay below). Thoughts on repent and repair We acknowledge we are gathering on land where Miami, Osage, Shawnee, and other Indigenous peoples have lived and labored, fought, and loved. I walk this land for a couple of hours…
Remembering Henry Smith
Henry Smith died last Friday at the age of 88. His obituary is HERE. Henry started attending CMC in the late fall of 2014. We had just finished our “Difficult Passages” worship series which highlighted themes of scripture we found troubling – a follow up to our “Twelve Scriptures Project” which highlighted those we…
Daily Connector | Part VI Repent. Repair. Real Estate: Redlining and the environment | Brent Miller
“Redlining,” as many of you know, was a common practice in the housing industry used by mortgage companies to deny loans to certain populations. You can guess which populations those were. The practice got its name from maps in loan officers’ offices on which areas were outlined in red to…
