MCC’S Blog
Weekly Reflection JUN 25, 2020
Black Lives and Everybody’s Freedom In August 1989 I was deeply privileged to travel to, and then spend a year living in, the beautiful Island of Jamaica as part of my theological and ministry training with the Presbyterian Church. Jamaica is such a beautiful place...
Weekly Reflection JUN 18, 2020
Late in my teenage years I was hit by several traumas over the period of about one and a half years. I got to the point where I was so sick of being sad that I just went numb. I couldn’t feel anything, no joy, no sorrow, no pain, no anger. I was unable to maintain the...
Weekly Reflection JUN 11, 2020
Some Reflections on the Killing of George Floyd, Racism, Sin and Christian Witness - by Dr. Patrick Mitchel The death of George Floyd, killed by Minneapolis police responding to an alleged minor breach of the law, has revealed, once again, the deep racial fractures...
Weekly Reflection JUN 04, 2020
"Pentecost is the moment when a heart of stone is shattered and a heart of flesh takes its place." - Father Raneiro Cantalamessa "Come Holy Spirit! Free us from being closed in on ourselves and instill in us the joy of proclaiming the Gospel." - Pope Francis...
Weekly Reflection MAY 28, 2020
Come Holy Spirit,Fill the hearts of Your faithfulAnd kindle in them the fire of Your love.Send forth Your Spirit, and they shall be created.And You shall renew the face of the earth.O God, who by the light of the Holy Spirit,Did instruct the hearts of the...
Weekly Reflection MAY 21, 2020
In Jim Carrey’s 1994 movie, “The Mask”, the character he plays finds a weird mask which, when he puts it on, seriously pulls out his trouble making side. As ‘The Mask’ he is completely uninhibited, and uses his new powers to pursue a girl, who is “out of his league”,...