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Daily Connector | Try writing a parable | Paul Knapke

The theme for our worship services for 7 Sundays in July and August is Parables. The parables told by Jesus in the bible are familiar to us, but can new parables be used to teach spiritual truths in the current day? Worship Commission decided to invite writers to create modern-day parables to present in our worship services.

How would you have handled this assignment?

We gave the writers these parameters for their modern-day parable: 1. center your parable around a wisdom teaching; 2. either write your own parable...

Learning how to pray

Amidst the many losses of the Covid era, I keep coming back to something spiritual writer Richard Rohr wrote years back and reiterated this past spring as it was becoming clear the pandemic would alter church life for the foreseeable future.

What wrote however many years ago was that he wished congregations could cancel all programming for a year and simply learn how to pray. At the end of the year they could decide which programs served as extensions of their prayers and which were superfluous.

Richard Rohr’s prayers/wishes are apparently quite powerful because that year...

Daily Connector | Comfort and connection | Nancy Franke

This was Family Center week. Our fourth month of providing food for dinner but with no personal contact with either those whom we so enjoy serving alongside of, or the families we so enjoy seeing relish the crispy chicken tenders, homemade macaroni and cheese, “Daddy green beans”, and the best colorful fresh fruit. I miss the jolly dishwashers teasing me about sending back silverware that didn’t quite get all the macaroni cleaned off. I miss each server who has developed their personal area of expertise and style – Roberta dishing out mac, Maris “selling” milk to the...

Daily Connector | Stand your ground for nonviolent conflict resolution | Jim Myers

In February of 2020 the headline in my county’s newspaper reported that a group named The Second Amendment (2A) had submitted a resolution to the County Commissioners to turn my county into a second amendment sanctuary. Basically these 2A groups are making a preemptive effort to circumvent national and state laws about limitations to the use of firearms. Specifically, the resolutions (there are different wordings) state that the county will agree not to enforce laws that the group believes violate the US Second Amendment. ...

Daily Connector | Opportunity to Socialize - Action Required (really) | Ruth Massey

The CMC Survey gathered results that 80+ people would like to gather in small social groups. Mim Halterman and Ruth Massey will be facilitating opportunities for folks to socialize safely in person during this time of the pandemic. The idea is similar to the Winter Dinner Groups but in this case, it will be Summer Social Groups. This is a chance to visit with someone you haven’t seen in person recently. For this first meeting we recommend gathering without a meal/food to see how it feels and works.

To start the process, we...

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