from a blog reading this morning ....... st phransus

listen to a theological basis for how we "play together as a spiritual practice".


from a blog reading this morning ....... naked pastor

I’ve personally come to believe that the simple act of our church community getting together intentionally just to party has enormous value in and of itself. When someone suggests maybe bringing a guitar to do worship or praying, I resist it. That’s right, I resist it. Why do we think there needs to be worship songs or prayer to sanctify a gathering? This is false. I claim that simply getting together in the same room to eat and drink and talk is an extremely sanctified occasion.

I tend to agree!!! Just being together is in itself sanctifying.




from a blog reading this morning ....... inward/outward

By Jean Vanier

Maybe today some people see opposition between, on the one hand, a seemingly barren, old, institutional church, cut off from the world, looking after buildings, and worried about membership and attendance, and on the other hand, new communities, filled with life, enthusiasm, risk, openness and welcome, concerned about the big issues of the world — injustice, torture, peace, disarmament, ecology, a better distribution of wealth, the liberation of women, drug addiction, AIDS, people with handicaps…. But we know that every community, with time, risks closing in on itself and becoming an empty institution governed by laws. The new communities of today can become the closed-up, barren institutions of tomorrow.