Reflections
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Reimagining: The End of the Beginning Trying to summarize the past eight months of dialogue and discernment is a fraught task, let alone trying to accurately the perspectives |
by Zak Carroll |
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Why Church? One question inherent to the Reimagining Church program that is so fundamental that it runs the risk of being overlooked is: Why Church? |
by Zak Carroll |
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Reflection on the Feb 12 Gathering I have sat down to write this reflection since last week more times than I care to count. What should my focus be? |
by Vanessa Gonzalez-Rivera |
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Unveiling the Good Work Already Happening From my view as facilitator of Branford UCC’s conversation with Becca, I saw something remarkable happen. |
by Jake Cunliffe |
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How Do We Reimagine? When I first came into this program called “Reimagining Church” I wondered aloud at one of our first meetings whether the title “Reimagining church” meant re-imagining “our” church or re-imagining the big “C” Church community. |
by Rev. Barbara Libby and Ray Andrewsen |
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Doing Church and Being Church: A Reflection on our First Semester Churches in our nation face the triple epidemics of the COVID crisis, racial and systemic injustice, and the climate crisis. |
by Natalie Benson |
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Where We Are Today Throughout last semester, St. Peter's Working Group worked to build cohesion as a group, understand our role in the congregation, and pin down where the passions and gifts of the congregation lie. |
by Leah Wise |
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Imagining a Homecoming Becca Stevens, in our group’s meeting with her, asked us what gave us energy. |
by Lila Pierce |
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Finding the Focus If you don’t know your non-negotiables, Tyler warned, then you will find yourself strung out trying to do everything at once. |
by Jonathan Lee |
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Telling the Story Through self-narration, we are coming to understand that diversions can often tell us more about the heart of things than staying on topic. |
by Leah Wise |