These words, used to excuse vile language about women during the 2016 election, point to a deep historic conflict of values. It’s not just about how men behave: Throughout human history, worldviews based in domination and in collaboration have been in tension. Today, the contrast between these worldviews are as clear as they have ever … Continue reading Locker Room Talk
Celebrating Earth Day this week gives us a chance to reflect on how good we’ve had it, living in a place of abundant beauty and natural resources. But 55 years after Earth Day was first created, there are those in power making choices that endanger our planet; have we humans lived for too long in … Continue reading Paradise of Fools
New member Bogie Cashwell offers his first worship service to us.
Please bring a flower of your choice, either from your own gardens, or from a field or roadside, and we will build a bouquet of joy together in the annual Flower Ceremony.
What do you get when you mix collaboration, shared narrative, mutual reliance, camaraderie, teamwork, and creative expression?? A community that knows how to play and how to trust each other …. you know … like a church!!
A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, because her trust is not in the branch but in her own wings.
We know how important trust is in relationships, how do we move with trust when we have been harmed?
If we are willing to embrace the challenge of becoming whole, we cannot embrace it alone—at least, not for long: we need trustworthy relationships to sustain us, tenacious communities of support, to sustain the journey toward an undivided life.
What exactly is “trust,” anyway? Why is it important to reevaluate what we mean when we invoke this idea? Trust is another one of those messy abstractions that make us human – and it is something that humans make. How do we maintain trust in chaotic times – with so much dirtiness – or “matter … Continue reading Trust in the Dirt
Preemptive Radical Inclusion is not an outcome, but is a doorway to justice. By taking actions in advance which center the needs of those marginalized, you move toward the beloved community.
