Pastor Donnie Brooks

“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)

“The tyranny of this dictatorship isn’t primarily the fault of Big Business, nor of the demagogues who do their dirty work. It’s the fault of Doremus Jessup! Of all the conscientious, respectable, lazy-minded Doremus Jessups, who have let … [Read more...] about Contemplation Corner for February 5, 2026

I almost think that hope is for the soul what breathing is for the living organism. Where hope is lacking the soul dries up and withers.” -Gabriel Marcel by Pastor Donnie BrooksMarcellus UnitedMethodist … [Read more...] about Contemplation Corner – Hope

“The business of philosophy is to teach man to live in uncertainty…not to reassure him, but to upset him.”  -Lev Shestov (All Things are Possible) by Pastor Donnie BrooksMarcellus United Methodist … [Read more...] about Contemplation Corner: ‘the business of philosophy. . .’

“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be … [Read more...] about Contemplation Corner for January 15, 2026