Tell the Story
Songs of the Season
How did you react when you first starting hearing the songs this year? Honestly? Was it with joy for the coming season? Or were you upset that the songs had started so soon? Does this season bring warm fuzzy feelings or does it cause tension because of long lists of items to buy and things to do?
Meditation on hope from Rev. Gail Wright
Destroyed, Dis-remembered, Disregarded
“Instead of destroying, disregarding, or disremembering, we can re-discover the Holy One in the Temple of our hearts.
It will take a little work. We need to spend time taking inventory of the capital we’ve built up; to be in prayer and meditation and open our hearts and minds to God’s call.
Come Back to God.
God makes a perfect scapegoat when things go wrong but when we can accept the consequences for our actions, when we can use a prophetic voice to call out wrongdoing, when we can recognize that the love of God is broader than we can ever imagine, we can come back to God.
On Toxic Masculinity
Just as the people of Israel and Judah walked away from their leaders when then threatened violence, we can stand up to toxic masculinity in our culture. We can teach our children and ourselves a different way.
Like Nobody’s Watching
“Dancing may not always look like dancing. Singing may not always sound like singing. Praise may not always look like praise.”
Acceptance, connection, meaning, and purpose
MCC’s vision 2020 team introduces a draft mission statement.
Love Rules
What about when our laws don’t line up with God’s laws? What happens when we run them through the filter of love and realize that they’re incompatible?