Pasadena Mennonite Church

Lisa Danner talks about the challenges of family conflicts for those attempting to live a pacifist lifestyle. Some of our toughest conflicts involve issues where we feel forced to choose between articulating a deeply held value or “maintaining peace” by way of keeping silent. Lisa summarizes a key finding of Dr. Tania Israel’s research on… Read more

Tim Reardon talks about Buffalo, NY as home, lamenting that it’s now used as shorthand for horrific, racist white violence following the shooting on May 14 at a Tops Friendly Markets store. And he goes on to describe the peace of Christ, in contrast to what the world has to offer. Read more

Rhoda Blough, our representative from Everence, a faith-based financial services group, references Exodus 16, about manna, and the Matthew 14 passage that describes Jesus feeding a crowd of 5,000. Along with these passages, she shares from a money autobiography and the realization that her parents had left a legacy of abundance to her family. From… Read more

Jason Timothy Smith describes himself as an accountant by day, and artist by night. He talks about a book called “Suma de Arithmetica,” about Fra Luca Pacioli, an Italian Mathematician known as the “father of accounting,” who was also math teacher to Leonardo da Vinci. Pacioli also wrote “The Divine Proportion” about the Golden Ratio,… Read more

Joshua Grace and friends Dimitri and Rufo painted and presented a mural to PMC, representing the land that we at PMC meet on: the unceded territory of the Hahamong’na tribe of the Tongva people who have lived in and stewarded the land of the Los Angeles basin for thousands of years. Joshua has been working on a… Read more