Daily Connector | Etro Stars Quilt | Virginia Nussbaum
In October of 2019 I began working on a quilt I had agreed to make, but had delayed starting. Nearly eleven months later, it is finally finished, and has been sent to the people who asked me to make it. They are delighted with the quilt. During that time life…
Midweek Blog: Useless Beauty
“A work of art offers a paradoxical liberation: it is something that changes everything while being perfectly useless in any ordinary sense…Art’s role in the contemporary world may well be precisely to be un-useful, to reveal the importance of uselessness in our lives. You can’t eat a painting. You can’t…
Daily Connector | First Fruits Giving | Fred Suter
August is the time of year to prepare for harvesting—fruits from the trees and grains from the fields. It’s also a time of reflection and projection for me. As I consider the recent request from the Leadership Team for a First Fruits Giving commitment for 2021, I appreciate the role…
Daily Connector | Thoughts on giving | Pete Yoder & Metz Kramer
For good, or for ill, money has power, and it speaks for us. For this reason, we offer our financial giving intentionally. Just as in a growing season, from planting to harvest, we plan our giving upfront, so that it speaks to what we value, believe, and support. So where…
Daily Connector | Plarn anyone? | Katie Mast
The kitchen floor was nearly covered. I had just put all the groceries away and there they were, plastic bags puffed in a pile like cumulus clouds. I scooped them up and tried to stuff them in the cupboard where the rest of the bags were stuffed. The door didn’t…