In efforts to reclaim and remember God’s gift of sabbath, Church of the Beloved is inspiring experiments in sabbath keeping. Conduct your own!

an ascension day poem by ryan marsh

“and they went home rejoicing…”
who here has ever known a leaving like this?
suspiciously absent of estrangement
and lacking the assumed abandonment
who here has ever known a leaving like this?
the old man told the old man,
“No one has ever seen the Father,
and Jesus ain’t ’round anymore,
so all we’ve got is the [...]

Here’s a prayer that a few of us wrote after meditating on Psalm 23

1,095,000.  That’s how many advertisements you will encounter this year.  This equals 3,000 advertisements each day.  You will encounter more commercials in a single year than your counter part 50 years ago saw in their entire lifetime.  In 2009 Microsoft spent 518 million dollars on advertising in order to combat the iPhone (…and their ads [...]

Julian of Norwich, 14 century Christian mystic, famously said, “All shall be well. All shall be well. All manner of things shall be well.”
I love this quote, but I got to thinking about it.  Isn’t it pretty much nothing more than blind optimism?  Just a poetic way of saying, ’everything works itself out in the [...]

We return to full on sermons this palm sunday… here’s way more than a sneak peak.

The risen Christ is leading us in a barrage of life-giving acts… join the insurrection.

fast – examen – prayer – lectio – hostis
these are some of the deepening practices of our faith

Snow (Aha Moment) by Anna Studenny
I recently had an epiphany while sitting on top of a hill frosted with flaky snowflakes. I happened to find myself on top of this frosted hill because I had been experiencing stomach pain for several five months and was hoping to get some relief from a massage therapist located here. At one [...]

The Eucharistic prayer, including E.E. Cummings poem, “we thank you God”, created for the Sustainable Grace Series.