Session Notes
Your Session sat, by Zoom, for its regular monthly meeting this week.
These are “liminal” times. Liminal is a synonym of transitional, and an apt description of this time in our church life. It’s a period of change and stress. It is not the ideal environment for decision-making, but there is much to decide. In the first part of our meeting, we spent time on the challenges and opportunities of liminality.
A Word from Laura: The Next Faithful Step
“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”- Doris Lessing
One of you emailed me this quotation from Lessing, the Nobel prize winner who grew up white in what is now Zimbabwe. Fiercely against apartheid, her work as a writer meant remaining in solidarity with those who do not share an equality of opportunity.
MK Gala 2021 Celebration: Mission Critical
The Western Presbyterian community is invited to attend the FREE virtual Miriam’s Kitchen 2021 Gala celebration: Mission Critical.
A Word from Laura: Giving thanks for Waldon Adams and Rhonda Whitaker
No matter where you find yourselves these days, you get this email because at some level you have a spiritual home at 24th and G Streets, NW.
Having Western as a spiritual home connects you in a meaningful way to the lives of Waldon Adams and Rhonda Whitaker, two members of the Miriam’s Kitchen community who were hit in a fatal car accident last Saturday at Hains Point. Some of you may have read the piece in the Post; here’s a more recent update from DCist. For those connected with them and their commitment to communities experiencing homelessness in DC, their death feels like a “gut punch.”
