These past few days have been characterized by a couple different phrases potentially, but not necessarily, at odds with each other.    On Saturday the CMC Leadership Team met for our annual visioning retreat (once you do it a second year it becomes annual, right?).  After some reflection on the…

Lent is a season for slowing down and focusing on what matters most.  For many people this entails “giving up” something.  This act of fasting can be a way to practice discipline, to free up space in our lives, or simply to stop doing something that we know is not…

As far as I can tell, the only cross regularly displayed in our sanctuary is on the front of the pulpit, two thin lines that can, depending on the light, blend in with the grain of the wood in which they’re cut.  That’s about to change. Our Lenten worship theme…

One thing feeding my soul in 2020 has been David Whyte’s little book Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words.  If you are a lover of language, or just someone who uses it occasionally, it is soooooo good.  He takes 52 ordinary words, presenting a several page…

The cover story in the March edition of The Atlantic is titled, “The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake.”  This five minute video with author David Brooks gives a summary. Brooks’ basic argument is that the nuclear family – a household consisting of two married parents living with their children –…