Excerpts from email conversation with Pr. Lisa about getting together for lunch next week:Lisa: Hope your week is going well.

me: Significantly less exhausted since [...] last Friday -- which means I now have the brain space to fret (and other less negative verbs) about stuff that's more directly about me.

Lisa: Encouragement winging your way to ( Read more... )

On Friday I had an hour and a half lunch with Laura Ruth at HBS ( Read more... )

This morning's lectionary readings were:

2 Chronicles 34:1-7
Acts 10:44-48FCS-Ian commented on the juxtaposition of the 2 texts -- the one about forcing other religions out and the other about inviting them in.  "Forcing them in," Tim D. commented -- "The circumcised weren't very happy about it ( Read more... )

I want a radical, queer, church, which is rooted in the Bible (and tradition), and which is engaged -- with the text, with the tradition, with the world -- and which doesn't make assumptions ( Read more... )

Dear Beloved,

Come tonight for Rest and Bread, if you like. Come pray with us, join us for communion at 6:15. Come for a deep, sweet silence at 6.

After Rest and Bread, come tell us what you like about Rest and Bread, and what you wish we would and could do. We'll be so glad for your input.

Love,
Laura Ruth
Psalm 82 ( Read more... )

[Heh, I hadn't realized that my Subject Line got cut off -- Semagic allows me to type for longer in the Subject Line bar than LJ will actually display -- but I kind of enjoy that "house of Is" . . . echoing God's self-identification as "I AM."][FirstChurch Mailing List] Rest and Bread, Ezekial, his wheel and his bones ( Read more... )