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
For lyrics, go here.
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: 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: 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 [...]
Posted by: Drew on: 9 July 2008
A Woman’s Place is in the House … of Bishops (by Joy Carroll Wallis)
Posted by: Drew on: 16 June 2008
So I am now officially(?) a Mennonite. Yesterday was our fellowship’s Recovenanting service, and in stepping forward to sign the covenant I am now a member. So I now get to take part in this wonderful statement.
“We covenant together to love each other with Christian love; to help each other discover the fullest expression of [...]
Posted by: Drew on: 28 May 2008
So I’m reading Head and Heart by Gary Willis and discovered something I hadn’t know about previously. Though upon thinking about it, I really shouldn’t be surprised. So, apparently the Southern Baptist Convention was formed due to Southern Christians insistence that there was nothing wrong with the institution of slavery. The Southern Baptist Convention at [...]
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