Pros & Cons: March 2025

Beauty for ashes.

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In yet another month where turning on the news on any given day would drive a great deal of sane people to a place of despair, grace arrested me and held me captive when I most needed it.

I got to spend time in community with people who reminded me that the darkness will never extinguish the light.

And I am grateful for it.

Pros:

1. I ended last month and began this month in Goshen, Indiana at the Hope for the Future Conference.

   

   Thulani Conrad Moore, me, and Jerrell Williams

   Some of you may know that when we launched The Intention Church last year, we did it in partnership with Central District Conference of Mennonite Church USA. It opened the door to a world of Anabaptism that I’d only known in a shallow sense a few years ago. But that world is also very… well… white. And some people who are not white set out to create a space for Anabaptists who weren’t white to work out what that’s like for us. I went to that conference for the first time this year and made a whole bunch of new friends. But also, I got to link up with some old ones around town as well.

   

   Jerrell Williams, Cory Martin, me, and Shannon Martin