Pastor Donnie Brooks

  Pastor Donnie Brooks, at left, with wife Jessica Brooks and Dawn Riggs-Melville at the UMC Women’s Tea, Saturday, May 9. - News Photo The comfortable need the oppressed more than the oppressed need the comfortable. If the comfortable … [Read more...] about Contemplation Corner: The comfortable need the oppressed. . .

Fool’s Gold by Pastor Donnie BrooksMarcellus United Methodist Churchpastordonnieb@outlook.com “I chased oh so long after a treasureMy eyes seemed to have no fill to measureWhat I thought I found was not of goldNor platinum nor fine … [Read more...] about Contemplation Corner: Fool’s Gold

“All her life she had never had intimates, except for her father, Oscar Klebs, Lafe Resnick, Pat Bramble, Eleanor, and Dr. Wormser. Yet she had always been in crowds. She discovered now that the purpose of travel is not to seek new people, … [Read more...] about Contemplation Corner: “All her life she never had intimates. . .”

“Compassion is the love that recognizes and goes forth to identify with the preciousness of all that is lost and broken within ourselves and others.” ― James FinleyChristian Meditation: Experiencing the Presence of God  by Pastor Donnie … [Read more...] about Contemplation Corner: “Compassion is the love. . .”

“Pain that is not transformed is transmitted.” – Richard Rohr by Pastor Donnie BrooksMarcellus United Methodist Churchpastordonnieb@outlook.com    We have all heard the expression, “hurt people, hurt people.” I would think … [Read more...] about Contemplation Corner: “Pain that is not transformed is transmitted.”

“Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” -James Baldwin (No Name in the Street) by Pastor Donnie BrooksMarcellus United Methodist Churchpastordonnieb@outlook.com    Not that this is a … [Read more...] about Contemplation Corner: Ignorance allied with power. . .

“Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.”― Richard Wright, Native Son by Pastor Donnie BrooksMarcellus United Methodist Churchpastordonnieb@outlook.com     Now, from a … [Read more...] about Contemplation Corner: “Men can starve from a lack of self-realization . . .”

“Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.”― W.E.B. DuBois (“Of Work and Wealth” - Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil) by Pastor Donnie BrooksMarcellus United Methodist … [Read more...] about Contemplation Corner: March 12, 2026

“My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I’m not selling bread; I’m selling yeast.” -Miguel de Unamuno by Pastor Donnie BrooksMarcellus United Methodist Churchpastordonnieb@outlook.com    Unamuno was a Professor of Greek at … [Read more...] about Contemplation Corner: “I’m not selling bread; I’m selling yeast.”

“Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.” ― Sinclair Lewis, It Can’t Happen Here by Pastor Donnie BrooksMarcellus UnitedMethodist Churchpastordonnieb@outlook.com   Every person, we shall say, is a king as … [Read more...] about Contemplation Corner: Every man is a king. . .

“The true meaning of love one’s neighbor is not that it is a command from God which we are to fulfill, but that through it and in it we meet God.” -Martin Buber by Pastor Donnie BrooksMarcellus United Methodist … [Read more...] about Contemplation Corner: The true meaning of love one’s neighbor. . .

“For the Lord your God is the God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who is partial and takes no bribe, who executes justice for the orphan and the widow, and who loves the strangers, providing them with food and … [Read more...] about Contemplation Corner: Deuteronomy 10:17-19 (NRSV)