Easter Sunday is past, but the liturgical season of Easter is only beginning, running up through Pentecost Sunday, May 15.  During this Easter season our worship theme will be “Conversions.” The plural is intentional.  We’ll be looking at different conversion stories in scripture and in more recent history, beginning…

  Cuba has been in the news this week, and our congregation recently received a gift from Cuba that will be on display at tonight’s Maundy Thursday service. In January CMCers Joe Mas and Linda Mercadante led a group of seminary students on a Cuba trip.  Cuba is Joe’s place…

“Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth?  No, I tell you, but rather division.” — Luke 12:51 Say what, Jesus? Needless to say, this is not a verse championed by Mennonites.  Do you think Jesus came to bring peace to the earth?  “Yes!” is…

Two weeks ago I attended an event at MTSO (Methodist Theological School in Ohio) on Mass Incarceration.  An African American woman deeply involved on the scene in Ferguson and other racial justice work voiced something I hadn’t heard before: A critique of the word “ally.” She felt that along with…

“…chosen as partners, midwives of justice, birthing new systems, lighting new lights.” From the song “God of the Bible,” Sing the Journey 27 This winter I’ve been a part of a Sunday school class studying the book of Exodus and its many intersections with the African American experience of slavery…