February 24 Readings Read Mark 8:22-10:16 Myers, Chapters 11, 12, 13, pages 97-123 Background: Myers calls this session and the next the “discipleship catechism.” The catechism has five elements. This week we learn about three of them: the way of the cross, prayer, and solidarity. Apocalyptic images come to the forefront as we… Read more February 24 Seeker’s Class Assignment and Background
March 3 Readings Read Mark 10:17-52 Myers, Chapters 14 &15, pages 124-139 Background: Part two of the discipleship catechism focuses on economics and leadership. Myers says that “our addiction to affluence” is the most pervasive and difficult of human addictions. We learn why Jesus is unable to grant the… Read more March 3rd Seeker’s Class Assignment and Background
March 10 Readings Read Mark 11:1-13:37 Myers, Chapters 16, 17, 18, pages 143-180 Background: Jesus entry into Jerusalem is street theater. His strategy is to break “the spell of credulity”—the net cast over all people. Myers invites us to examine “texts of terror”—those biblical stories that are particularly violent—and offers guidelines for… Read more March 10th Seeker’s Class Assignment and Background
March 17 Readings Read Mark 14:1-16:8 Myers, Chapters 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, pages 181-212 Background: Women play a particularly significant role throughout Mark’s gospel and especially so in these last chapters. Most biblical scholars agree that the original manuscript ends with 16:8, or perhaps there were multiple versions of the ending… Read more March 17th Seeker’s Class Assignment and Background
This week marks my three month anniversary with PVCC. I started on Oct. 14th, although I did not lead worship until November. I thought that one way to mark our journey is with these words taken from a prayer for the church written by Reinhold Niebuhr, “O God, grant us grace fitly to be joined… Read more Three months together
PVCC will host an evening with the Wichita Peace and Justice Center on Friday, January 25, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. We learn about the Peace and Justice Center trip last November to Fort Benning, Georgia, to protest the School of the Americans (SOA). The information and links below will introduce you to SOA. It is… Read more Public Event: Learning about the School of the Americas, Jan 25th at PVCC
I want to invite you to two events this Saturday, January 12. The first is the Annual Meeting of Interfaith Worker Justice Kansas, which is an organization that I am affiliated with. We will meet in Dugan Convention Center on the campus of Newman University. The meeting will begin with a welcome and gathering at… Read more Great Activities
I am watching the snow blanket the earth with much needed moisture as I write this on Monday afternoon. As I watch the big flakes fall gently, I am thinking of Wendell Berry’s poem “What We Need is Here”. Celebrating and honoring a Creation-centered spirituality is a fine way to welcome the New Year. Promising to… Read more Message From the Pastor
I am watching the snow blanket the earth with much needed moisture as I write this on Monday afternoon. As I watch the big flakes fall gently, I am thinking of Wendell Berry’s poem “What We Need is Here”. Celebrating and honoring a Creation-centered spirituality is a fine way to welcome the New Year. Promising to… Read more Snow fall wishes
Christianity is often called the most materialistic of all faiths, because of the message of Emmanuel—the Word became a human being. God pitched her/his tent among us. God is with us. This is good news of great joy, which shall be to all people! How we interpret the Christmas story influences what we think the… Read more A Christmas Mediation