Looking Back at 2021

Happy Holidays from M28! As 2021 nears its end, we are looking back at all we have accomplished and thanking God for all of the encouragement we have received! One thing that stands out is the amazing support we have been given by so many individuals and businesses across central Pennsylvania. Since our doors opened ...Read More

Places and Spaces

“I like this place,” Jimmy M. said as we drove back to Daystar on the uneven, craggy pavement from Little Amps. “I feel like it’s a place I can grow, plant some roots, and change my life. It’s different from Bloomsburg.” “How so?” I asked. “Something about that place. It’s where I learned to shoot ...Read More

The Effects of Justice Work

Dietrich Bonhoeffer once said, “We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.” What we often see in our communities is the first part of that quote: the bandaging of wounds beneath the wheel. We see treatments of the ...Read More

Migrations Of The Holy: Part 2 – Shifts In Being

In the first part of this series, we talked through the shift in thinking many in the church have had as it relates to political affiliation and effectiveness. Here’s what I saw/see: many are choosing to replace the church and Christianity with a religious commitment tied to their Nation. In other words, what we have ...Read More

Migrations Of The Holy: Part 1

“Migrations of the Holy” is a term coined by British Historian John Bossy, and used as the title of a book by William Cavanaugh. The book by Cavanaugh will be my “dialogue” partner as I reflect on God, Politics, and the meaning of the Church in the political sphere. For years it had been commonplace ...Read More