by MCCDC-Dale | Feb 11, 2021 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
“. . .I have courted the Beloved long enough to know what it is like to receive a divine visit: it is like coming home after a long time away; it is like being held by someone with all the time in the world; it is like remembering a dream that opens a door.” ~Barbara...
by MCCDC-Dale | Feb 4, 2021 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
I am grateful for the ways that our worship series, Learning to Move in the Dark, has offered permission and encouragement to explore the complexities of how we individually, and at times, as community, think about, experience, and make meaning of darkness and light....
by MCCDC-Dale | Jan 28, 2021 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
As we continue our journey of learning to move in the dark, it may be helpful to think of times recounted in Scripture as well as in our own lives when darkness formed the container which we see and feel. I know that there have been times in my life when I felt so...
by MCCDC-Dale | Jan 21, 2021 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events
“If the human fear of night affected only humans, there might be justice in that. But our nyctophobia affects every creature within reach of the light we have invented to push back the darkness.” ~Barbara Brown Taylor, Learning to Walk in the Dark We are...
by MCCDC-Dale | Jan 14, 2021 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
“The way most people talk about darkness, you would think that it came from a whole different deity, but no. To be human is to live by sunlight and moonlight, with anxiety and delight, admitting limits and transcending them, falling down and rising up. To want a life...
