by MCCDC-Dale | Feb 25, 2021 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
“We are true to ourselves and true to you, O God, without apology. Shaped by intimate, healthy relationships with God, we begin to see and know and learn differently. We learn to like and love ourselves, seeing our illumined beauty. As our love for self grows, we are...
by MCCDC-Dale | Feb 18, 2021 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
As we enter Lent some are asking, “How are we going to get through this time of pandemics?” Our Lenten theme offers this affirmative response: Love Makes a Way! The purpose of our theme is to explore the central message of our faith: love. What has become a cliché in...
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 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...
