ABOUT MCC
THE WHY AND THE HOW
Most of us have seen or experienced some deep trauma–we are military veterans, foster parents, social workers, and counselors. And we've all been burned by the Church, but we desperately love Jesus. So we're trying to be the kind of churches who don't burn people, and instead help them heal. Here's how: we started a psychology clinic, which includes psychiatry and even weird stuff like Christian yoga (it helps some people). We moved from bounded-set denominational theology to centered-set convergence (that will make sense to some people). We've done a lot of work to understand trauma and help people heal in relationship. We've built our organization as a trauma-wise ministry, offering voice and choice. We've engaged with the great Tradition of the Church to inform our faith and practice.
MISSIONAL, CONVERGENT ECUMENISM
Missional, meaning we want to live out our faith. We don't want to lift up our hands to worship the Lord with blood on them, and we want our religion to be pure. We care for foster kids, and our aging parents, and people who are poor, others who are homeless. Convergent, meaning we acknowledge and participate in a couple of different streams of Christianity. It's not cherry-picking, it's exclusion and embrace (again, that will make sense to some people). In other words, we're more concerned about unity than uniformity, more concerned about what we do together than whether we agree with each other. Ecumenism, meaning we work with the people who will work with us. We started in New Orleans in the urban core, and when you're working in a field like that, there is too much lostness to bicker over nonessentials of the faith.