anabaptism
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🌰🍎 Indiana Nut and Fruit Growers Association meeting and scion swap, today.
We are walking there after church.
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The White River Alliance is issuing an urgent action request to protect Indiana wetlands. This is important for flood & drought management, ecosystems, biodiversity, and much more.
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🕊 I’ve written and delivered sermons, I’ve been a pastor’s husband, but Sunday I’ll resume the role of sermon midwife again.
Join us in person or I can get you a link to watch online.
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Currently reading: Fight Like Jesus by Jason Porterfield 📚
(Note: not what it might sound like. 🕊️)
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🕊 MennoMedia has a 40% off sale for Black History month.
Some great books on this list. I particularly recommend Drew G. I. Hart’s Trouble I’ve Seen.
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🕊 Mennonite Central Committee and Mennonite Church USA are hosting a series of webinars: Beyond Incarceration.
Over the last forty years, the era of mass incarceration has seen a rise in the U.S. prison population by five hundred percent.
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🕊 Happy to be a sermon midwife.
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🕊 Our church finished the Mennonite Church USA Abolition Curriculum this week.
Here were some of our takeaways:
What other MCUSA Churches are doing: We can add some of our current or past activities to the site.
#8toAbolition: Click on each of the 8 areas to see examples of opportunities to make a difference. Where are you called to help? Where is the greatest need in our community? What are we uniquely suited to address?
Cost of Policing Comparison: How does our city budget compare, and what are some ways we could get ahead of problems by shifting our focus?
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We talked about bail reform in Sunday School today. 🕊️
Here’s John Oliver’s take on the topic.
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Please recommend more albums like Yovel - Forthcoming Humanity 🎶🕊🏴
(Plex says BtBaM - The Great Misdirect is similar. It’s also a great album, but no.)
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Consider signing the change.org petition. 🕊
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🕊 I’m “Designated Preacher” this morning (meaning, I am reading the pastor’s teaching in their absence).
“Join us” online 9:30 eastern for Jesus Geography: Caesarea Philippi.
