by Chris Giambelluca | Mar 30, 2020 | MVC Story Blog
By Pastor Dan Navarra Dear Students, It’s the way I start this letter but it’s also a phrase describing my shepherd’s heart for you all. You are dear to me, students. No doubt, this quarantine that has caused your spring full of school and dreams of life to be...
by Chris Giambelluca | Mar 27, 2020 | MVC Story Blog
A Formation Practice for Unsteady Times: Invitation to Pendulate In his poem If, Rudyard Kipling puts words to what most of us would like to be able to say is true of us today; “If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs…” Despite all that...
by Guest Author | Mar 25, 2020 | MVC Story Blog
Submitted by Guest Author, Audrey Silva Turning off the lights to my barren classroom, my chest tightens, my throat closes, tears well up in my eyes as I look at my classroom stripped of any recognition of the students or the teacher inhabitants that once...
by Nancy Rapp | Mar 21, 2020 | MVC Story Blog
“Mom, can I have a snack?” “Mom, my show stopped. Can you fix it” “Mom, can you wipe me?” “Mom, I had a bad dream. Can I sleep in your bed?” “Mom, brother kicked me!” “MOM! MOM! MOM!” Noise… It surrounds me, and at times I admit that I have allowed it to...
by Eric Johns | Mar 18, 2020 | MVC Story Blog
I’ve never really chosen to make a ritual of fasting for lent a regular part of my spiritual life and routine. Full disclosure, I grew up non-denom (non-denomination for those of you not familiar with church sarcasm!), just a guy in a church that actually split from...
