09.18.16 Blessed are the Poor in Spirit

This week began our deep exploration of practicing the Beatitudes with “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of Heaven.” The liturgy explored our poverty of spirit using Jesus’s teaching in Matthew 5. Jesus invites us to be salt and light in the...

9.11.16 An Invitation to Live the Beatitudes

A journey back to reality. It’s something most of us could use, what with the competing scripts and distortions and narratives and lies that swirl around us, telling us who we should be and what we should strive for and what we should buy to get there. It’s enough to...

08.14.16 A Theology and Practice of The Other

There is a certain heaviness when one talks about a “theology of the other” as we explored last night at the Practice. For some of us, the “other” feels far away; Syrian refugees and ISIS fighters, global politics, and economic anxiety. For other of us, the “other” is...

08.07.16 – Praying for the World With Images

Here are the words Kellye shared last night as she guided us to pray for the world using images. (Download the full liturgy here.) ——— I am going to lead us now through a practice of praying for our world using pictures. The poet Naomi Shihab Nye...