Daily Connector | Ballroom Dancing | Larry Less
During this pandemic, we lament the loss of ballroom dancing. Square dancing was very popular in the 1970s while I was stationed at Minot AFB, ND. In between the squares, the caller would “cue” round dances. Round dancing is choreographed ballroom dancing to a particular popular song and covers all…
Daily Connector | Try writing a parable | Paul Knapke
The theme for our worship services for 7 Sundays in July and August is Parables. The parables told by Jesus in the bible are familiar to us, but can new parables be used to teach spiritual truths in the current day? Worship Commission decided to invite writers to create modern-day…
Learning how to pray
Amidst the many losses of the Covid era, I keep coming back to something spiritual writer Richard Rohr wrote years back and reiterated this past spring as it was becoming clear the pandemic would alter church life for the foreseeable future. What wrote however many years ago was that he…
Daily Connector | Comfort and connection | Nancy Franke
This was Family Center week. Our fourth month of providing food for dinner but with no personal contact with either those whom we so enjoy serving alongside of, or the families we so enjoy seeing relish the crispy chicken tenders, homemade macaroni and cheese, “Daddy green beans”, and the best…
Daily Connector | Stand your ground for nonviolent conflict resolution | Jim Myers
In February of 2020 the headline in my county’s newspaper reported that a group named The Second Amendment (2A) had submitted a resolution to the County Commissioners to turn my county into a second amendment sanctuary. Basically these 2A groups are making a preemptive effort to circumvent national and state…
