Embodying Our Faith: Creating A Culture of Sharing
In a culture where a person’s success is determined more often by the the things that we have, and the amount of each of them that we have, establishing a culture of sharing turns that entire notion on its head…
Christian Community: New Possibilities For Tough Economic Times
“We have the opportunity to imagine a spectrum of new communities where, as the followers of Jesus, we can create new ways to be a difference and make a difference”…for times like these.
Reframing the Liturgical Year
We do better to simply cry out for God’s coming than to make peace with God’s absence by fixating on our celebrations, with all their traditions and trappings…It has always been meant to be something we simply look through, are helped along by, not something we look at, something we assign divine agency to, or hope in…
Cooking Up A Story: Monastery Mustard [video]
My latest favorite Cooking Up A Story video features the Benedictine Sisters of Mt. Angel, Oregon. They adhere to a monastic form of Christian community, balancing their days between prayer, community life, ministry to others and the fine art of making…Monastery Mustard!
Merton and Rushkoff: A Call To Exodus
“We’re living in a totalitarian society. It’s not fascist in a political sense, but in the way that it’s economically organized. It’s organized for profit and for marketing. In that machinery there’s no real freedom…”
Whole-Life Christian Faith: Out of the Box
Jesus calls us to…a spirituality that is incarnated…Will we go beyond the four walls of our comfortable Christianity and start living as disciples of Jesus? As Garrison Keillor has said: “Give up your good Christian life and follow Christ”…
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove: Christian Community
I appreciate Jonathan’s down to earth perspective here on intentional Christian community and how we must practically embody our theology in the everyday nuts and bolts of life and relationships.
Prayer As Community: 24-7 Prayer [video]
From the 24-7 Prayer movement: Meet a truly radical modern-day, monastic community which has moved into the picturesque village of Ramsdorf.
Why the Church is Full of Sickies
What is missing from the Church sometimes is our ability to admit that we are all broken beggars clinging to a mysterious Savior whom we understand imperfectly and follow even less perfectly.
Deep calls to Deep
I was just watching the Tri Robinson video about his root cellar that lead me to his homestead blog and found myself feeling a deep longing to live the life I feel called to–one of production not just consumption; one of simplicity and connection to this earth; one of real community and fellowship.
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