On Monday, October 26, about twenty-five of us, including representatives from CU at Home and the city of Champaign, met on-site at 509 Alabama Ave to pray a blessing over the work. These are the words we shared: Welcome to 509 Alabama Avenue, the future location of a...
Statement Concerning 2020 IMC Annual Meeting First Mennonite Church of Champaign-Urbana June 13, 2020 Seven delegates represented First Mennonite Church of Champaign-Urbana at the Illinois Mennonite Conference (IMC) annual business meeting Feb. 15 at Menno Haven Camp...
Political ImaginationThe task of prophetic communities shaped by God’s love and justice, according to Walter Brueggemann, is to nourish and evoke an “alternative consciousness,” one that is not confined by the measures of what’s possible but is shaped instead by the...
Jesus was a Jewish man with brown skin who was murdered by the state police after an act of civil disobedience resulted in the destruction of public property. He was accused of inciting the people to riot. This Jesus is the center of our faith. These historical facts...
In a recent email to FMC’s Service & Outreach Committee, committee Chair Janet Guthrie offered this frame of realistic hope from Arundhati Roy: Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no...
