Posted by: Drew on: 14 October 2009
This past weekend was one that gave me great hope, great courage, great knowledge, and great people. Where was I that this happened? At Community Mennonite Church of Lancaster for the Institute for Welcoming Resources‘ training “Building an Inclusive Church.” Led by Anita Bradshaw of IWR and by Carol Wise of the Brethren Mennonite Council, [...]
Posted by: Drew on: 4 October 2009
This morning in our service and education hour, the story of Esther was discussed in relation to how we relate to Empire. But in our discussions got a little into how Queen Vashti is depicted in the book as a villain, but how her actions are actually pretty virtuous to us as modern feminist [...]
Posted by: Drew on: 30 September 2009
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Posted by: Drew on: 14 September 2009
I just discovered a really good site today. Called World Prayers, its aim is to collect prayers from all the world’s traditions and non-traditions. Whether Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, or Pagan, the many prayers found here are words that inspire and direct mind and spirit outward and upward. I will definitely be using this resource [...]
Posted by: Drew on: 11 September 2009
Over the next month or two (or three….) I plan I writing on the closest thing the Mennonites have to a creed, the Confession of Faith in a Mennonite Perspective. I’ll try to explain what each article means for me, maybe discuss what it means for others, what it intentionally does or does not say, [...]
Posted by: Drew on: 11 September 2009
l ife is a garden,
not a road
we enter and exit
through the same gate
wandering,
where we go matters less
than what we notice
Bokonon
http://www.panhala.net/Archive/Life_Is.html
Not sure who actually came up with this, since Bokonon is the fictional religion developed by Kurt Vonnegut, but I have [...]
Posted by: Drew on: 8 September 2009
Zondervan and the Committee on Bible Translation have made an announcement that greatly saddens me. The translation that I use most often, Today’s New International Version, is being discontinued. For reasons that are beyond me with my current worldview, this version was attacked as deviant. And it appears that the people behind it have succumbed [...]
Posted by: Drew on: 6 September 2009
Today’s worship service was beginning of a series on national identity and living in the Empire. Anne led today, and to launch the series she chose to use Christian Peacemaker Team’s Litany of Resistance. I helped out in reading it, and I found it incredibly moving to be a part of. I hope to see [...]
Posted by: Drew on: 24 January 2009
Look out for this movie, Prayers for Bobby, over the next few days on Lifetime. It promises to be a very good one, at least I know that it’s a very well told story in book form, tragic and moving as it is. For the queer community it gives a glimpse of hope that even [...]
Posted by: Drew on: 13 December 2008
I really want this song at my wedding in some form, if I ever find the right guy (did I ever come out on this blog? well, now I did). The words are just beautiful and everything a marriage is about.
Love Changes Everything
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Love, love changes everything: hands and faces, earth and sky.
Love, love [...]
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