by MCCDC-Dale | May 16, 2019 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
“Imagine a place where mercy resides, love forms each heart and compassion is lived out with grit and determination.” ~ Cynthia Langston Kirk Rev. Troy Perry wasn’t sure what was ahead. Because he was gay, he had recently been defrocked by the church...
by MCCDC-Dale | Apr 25, 2019 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
John’s Gospel begins with “In the beginning was the Word…” John’s Gospel ends with “There are many other things that Jesus did—yet if they were written down in detail, the world itself, I suppose, couldn’t hold all the books that would have to be written” ( John...
by MCCDC-Dale | Apr 18, 2019 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn’t exist.” ~Azar Nafisi The life, death, and resurrection of Jesus call us to imagine the unimaginable. Between Good Friday and Easter Sunday Jesus enters the darkness. Then, darkness is...
by MCCDC-Dale | Apr 11, 2019 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
“Blessed are hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.” ~ Albert Camus This Sunday we are going to Jerusalem. There, in Jerusalem, we will enter a love story. It is a love story from the heart of Jesus. As told in Matthew’s gospel, the path to Jerusalem begins...
by MCCDC-Dale | Apr 4, 2019 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
Sometimes our heads are groggy from the muddle of overload. Other times our heads spin with multiple conversations going on all at once. Be it brain fog or brain spin, it is easy to think and act impulsively, without deeper consideration. Motives can quickly become...
by MCCDC-Dale | Mar 28, 2019 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
“What happens when people open their hearts in prayer? They get better.” ~ Haruki Murakami, alt. Many of my pastoral conversations center on prayer. Is there really power in prayer? We pray for wholeness of body, mind and spirit. We also pray for our broken world,...
