Happy Holidays!

Thank you to all of our generous members, friends and neighbors for helping us exceed our Turkey, Dressings and Extra Helpings food drive goal. We delivered groceries last Friday to fill food baskets for holiday meals for 60 families! In addition, we are able to donate $1000 to Ascension's food shelf. Ascension School Principal Dorwatha Woods sends her appreciation and says your gifts are especially important this time of year when children are home from school. Know that your generosity is very much appreciated by all the families.

Seasons Greetings ... Celebrate the season of giving!  -- Linnea

MCC member Mary F. Bednarowski has spent the fall as a resident scholar at the Collegeville Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research on the St. John's University campus.  She is doing research on stories told in the first person about religious lives and spiritual journeys in a variety of traditions.  These stories are found in many places:  spiritual memoirs, intellectual autobiographies, the prefaces of academic and popular books, interviews, literary works, blogs.  Her thesis, broadly, is the following: that whatever else they might be, religion and theology are arenas of ongoing human creativity that give us insights into how people claim, live out, question, renew or transform their religious worldviews in response to changing individual, communal, and social circumstances.  She will offer a presentation on her work and invites discussion from members.

MCC members sign up here.