Midweek Blog: Doing Our Own Work
“Patriarchy is the single most life-threatening social disease assaulting the male body and spirit in our nation.” “Men who win on patriarchal terms end up losing in terms of their substantive quality of life. They choose patriarchal manhood over loving connection, first foregoing self-love and then the love they could…
Daily Connector | Stories in a Recipe Box | Nancy Franke
Evidently one of the things that quarantine has resulted in is a renewed interest in or necessity for cooking. I wouldn’t say that has led me to becoming more of a chef, but it did get me to thinking about all the recipes I have gathered through the years and…
Daily Connector | My Front Porch | Joanna Suter
When I bought my first house, one of the things high on my wish list was a front porch. It wasn’t a very large porch but there was room for a couple of chairs. I like the way porches look on a house and I think they make a home…
Daily Connector | List of my FIVE favorite books and why | Dan Halterman
I have a list of books read since 1982. My permanent bookmark is two pieces of paper – one on which I write the titles of books I want/intend to read, inside a folded sheet for listing that year’s completed titles with author and date. The books read list is…
Cultivating Beloved Community
On Saturday, March 7, Leadership Team met for a retreat and decided on this as an annual vision for ministry: “We will cultivate beloved community by deepening relationships within and beyond our congregation.” The following day was the last time we worshiped together in our building before the pandemic shut…
