Exploring Faith and Community • Macalester Plymouth United Church July 2, 2020 Rev. Adam Blons During one of my first church interviews, I learned about a partnership between a white suburban congregation and an urban African American congregation. The partnership started with a shared Bible study in people’s homes. From there it grew to pulpit exchanges, choir…
Saturday, August 29 at 2 pmWe will gather via Zoom. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86032004475?pwd=anJsb04xQXBFMW0xZmh1a3Vza0RtZz09 Meeting ID: 860 3200 4475 Passcode: 022897 Click here to view the Livestream of the service at 2 pm on Saturday, August 29. Click here to view the obituary. Click here to view and/or download the bulletin for the service. Memorial gifts can be…
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Exploring Faith and Community • Macalester Plymouth United Church May 9, 2020Rev. Corinne Freedman Ellis I’d been hearing the buzz about this new Brené Brown podcast, Unlocking Us , for weeks. Brown, a social work professor at the University of Houston, is known for her research on vulnerability. Her popular books include The Gifts of Imperfection and Daring Greatly . People I trusted, who I knew were having similar pandemic…
Exploring Faith and Community • Macalester Plymouth United Church April 20, 2020Rev. Corinne Freedman Ellis We are fond of the expression for this period of time, “It’s a marathon, not a sprint.” As a staff, we’ve been talking a lot about sustainability, not just in work but in life. Now that we’ve made it out of the crisis sprint, now that we…
Exploring Faith and Community • Macalester Plymouth United Church April 9, 2020by Rev. Adam Blons I woke up today and wasn’t sure what day of the week it was. Without my normal routines and rhythms one day seems just like the next.Wasn’t I just sitting here in my home office, looking at this screen and typing yesterday? And the day before? I am clinging…
April 2, 2020 By Rev. Jeanyne Slettom “Candlepower” is a now-obsolete unit of measurement for luminous intensity. Last Sunday, when many of us lit candles during the online worship service, the term became a very present metaphor for measuring the luminous intensity of a worshipping community that, despite the need to remain physically distant, is…