Christmas Greetings! We have spent these weeks of Advent connected through these weekly reflections. We hope they have brought you moments of calm reflection in this busy season. We are so thankful for you as a friend and supporter of…
Category: Reflection
Advent Reflection: Week 4
Advent Greetings! In these days of Advent we invite you to pause in reflection and prayer with the Open Table Community. Each Sunday of Advent we will send a meditative reflection to your inbox. (You can sign up here.) Use them…
Advent Reflection: Week 3
Advent Greetings! In these days of Advent we invite you to pause in reflection and prayer with the Open Table Community. Each Sunday of Advent we will send a meditative reflection to your inbox. (You can sign up here.) Use them…
Advent Reflection: Week 2
Advent Greetings! As we enter these days of Advent we invite you to pause in reflection and prayer with the Open Table Community. These Sundays of Advent we will send a meditative reflection to your inbox. (you can sign up here). Use them…
Advent Reflection: Week 1
Advent Greetings! As we enter these days of Advent we invite you to pause in reflection and prayer with the Open Table Community. The four Sundays of Advent we will send a meditative reflection to your inbox (you can sign up here).…
Compelled to Respond
As shared by the Church of the Brethren Newsline on October 25, 2017, during the fall Mission and Ministry Board (MMB) meeting, conservative leaders from the Church of the Brethren likened Brethren Mennonite Council (BMC) to a white supremacist group. The…
Giving Tuesday
I write during a difficult, but important, time for our nation and our church. Nationally, we have just come through a divisive, angry campaign season which culminated in the vindication of fear-mongering and self-interest over reason and the common good. We…
More Than Prayers
Friends, Together we mourn the horrific shooting at Pulse Latin night, the Orlando gay dance club. We offer support and love to our LGBTQ+ siblings in Christ in Orlando, around the country, and in the Church of the Brethren. But our tears, prayers, and love are not enough.…
Letters for Bridgewater
Yesterday on Facebook I posted a message from Brethren Mennonite Council for LGBTQ+ Interests about Bridgewater Church of the Brethren’s Associate Pastor, Chris Zepp; “On [December 10, 2015], Mark Flory-Steury, acting district executive minister of the COB Shenandoah District, notified…
#Pray4Ferguson
Maybe your congregation mentioned Ferguson Missouri in worship on Sunday, maybe it didn’t. But here is why you need to be talking about it. Michael Brown’s death is not an isolated incident. In 2012, more than 300 black people were…
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