When I first visited Church of Beloved about a year ago, I was homeless. Not in a physical sense, but in a spiritual one. I was in the midst of a very difficult transition time. My family and I were letting go of our nomadic lifestyle, our missionary dream we’d lived / breathed for nearly [...]

Raise your hand if you knew today is the feast day of the Institution of Holy Communion or Corpus Christi day. Mmm, not many of you. Well, I didn’t know either. But it is. Corpus Christi day lands on the Thursday after the feast of the Holy Trinity, which was Sunday. Most Lutherans or Americans [...]

This is what you get when you combine the music of Bjork, the Book of Common Prayer, and musing about the Ascension…. whoa.

Taking a close look at the innate movements of worship.

I want to tell you a story, but to do so we’ll have to leave this time and this place and go to a time when God walked the earth.  You can hear the sound of hushed murmurs, a growing buzz is filling the air, and we find ourselves back in the synagogue in Jesus’ hometown.  [...]

A liturgical resource for the season of Epiphany

Beautiful & Clever Carol Covers – Merry Christmas from In Mansions and Church of the Beloved.

“Your God’s not big enough!” Preachers always like to say junk like that.  Certainly it’s true, but I never hear anyone say, “Your God’s not small enough!” And I suspect that our God really is too big, especially for Christmas.  The huge God who is older than time, who is before the creation of matter, who makes billions [...]

The unveiling of the “Father Winter Ale” bottle label – a home brew created by the men of Church of the Beloved to be uncorked on Christmas Day!

Hope.
It wins elections.  It fuels change.
Everybody wants hope.  Right?

Sure.  We want a hope we can wear on a t-shirt, but we sure as hell don’t want the long dark night of hope, because hope is hard work and not for the faint of heart.

Hope ignites the painter’s imagination
when staring [...]