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Daily Connector | Reparations Committee Part 1 | Adam Glass

I am incredibly privileged to be asked to be on our church's committee to help guide our reparations initiatives. Each member of the Reparations Committee has been asked to share with the congregation about our ongoing conversations, and I get to go first. So I thought I’d start at the inevitable beginning, the first questions we asked ourselves in the committee, the first questions anyone asks when we talk about reparations. What are we seeking to repair? Why is it our responsibility to repair it?

“My...

Chickens in America

We now welcome back to the blog our occasional guest, the chicken. (By the way, for those concerned, our backyard birds are just fine. They don’t mind the cold.)

I recently cracked open the book Why Did the Chicken Cross the World: The Epic Saga of the Bird That Powers Civilization, by Andrew Lawler. I was especially drawn to the chapter about chickens in early America. It turns out this is especially pertinent in this month of honoring Black history. It also has connections with our ongoing conversation about reparations.

British settlers brought chickens to...

Daily Connector | Transforming dough | Ruth Leonard

Junior youth made soft pretzels today. We learned a little pretzel history while we worked. Here are a few photos.

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Lent 2021: Repent. Repair.

Today is Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent. Our worship theme for this season is Repent. Repair.

Repentance is a perennial feature of Lent. Like any word that’s been tossed around for centuries, it’s helpful to return to its root meaning to remember what we’re talking about.

The Old Testament Hebrew word for repent means to turn or return. The imagery is of someone, or an entire people, walking in a certain direction, then doing a 180 and walking in the other direction. In light of Sunday’s wonderful children-centered worship service...

A time to plant (a church)

Two weeks ago we had the annual gathering of the CMC Leadership Team and Ministry Council (board + commission chairs + pastoral and administrative staff). It’s a time to step back from monthly duties, pose big picture questions, and think creative thoughts. The purpose of this year’s meeting was to imagine together what church life might look like in the year ahead with re-gathering in person, ongoing Zoom possibilities, relationships across distance, and new ventures with church planting.

For that last part we were joined by Carolyn May and Joel Call. The possibility of planting...

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