by MCCDC-Dale | Mar 4, 2021 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
“I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it’s for or against.” ~Malcolm X Truth-telling is no simple feat. Yet, the expectation that we will tell the truth is often part of our upbringing from very early in our lives. We then, often, very...
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 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...
by MCCDC-Dale | Jan 7, 2021 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
This week we begin a new worship series, Learning to Move in the Dark. The series is based on, and utilizes the writings of, Barbara Brown Taylor’s book, “Learning to Walk in the Dark.” Spiritually, Light and Darkness appear at the very beginning of the...
by MCCDC-Dale | Dec 31, 2020 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
“The star they had seen in the east went ahead of them until it stood over the place where the child was.” ~Matthew 2:9 In the Christian calendar, early January brings not only the new year, it also brings a celebration of the Epiphany. This special day...
