There is an old folksy truism that a rut is just a grave with the ends knocked out. As humans, we seem remarkably prone to getting into ruts. We may prefer to call them by a more flattering name – maybe routines or customs or habits. And sometimes, that kind of naming truly describes the […]
May 19, 2011
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Moving to Mondays – THIS MONDAY!
In the interest of having as many of us as possible gather this long weekend, we’ve switching our gathers to Monday nights starting this Monday (May 23rd). And just to make it more confusing, this Monday’s service will start a bit later than the Monday services to follow. So here’s the plan: Coffee and […]
May 7, 2011
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Celebrating Mothers
Mother’s Day is a day that can bring both celebration of fulfilled longings, as well as grieving for longings that remain. It can be difficult to talk about motherhood without falling into stereotypes or norms that can exclude so many, but I think it’s safe to connect the idea of nurturance and care to the […]
April 30, 2011
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A Hunger for "Heaven"…
Every once in a while I hear a song that goes beyond “ear worm” and becomes something almost permanent in my brain. It gets stuck in there, lodged in a deeper place than the place that just holds content (like lyrics) – a place that retains things because they are the carriers of a deeper […]
April 20, 2011
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"Happy Easter"…
Hello People of The Table. In the last couple of days I have had a number of people wish me “Happy Easter”. Not folks I know, just people I’ve interacted with in the process of going about my business day by day. It seems that Easter still has some cultural cache, even if it is […]
April 15, 2011
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Choices From The Margins
In the grand scheme of the church year, we are entering into the week that, in many ways, marks the pinnacle of Christian belief and worship. The story of the week before Christ’s death is a fast paced drama in which the central figure of Christ is borne inexorably toward the ultimate donation of self […]
April 8, 2011
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The Darkness of Fear…
It occurs to me that many of us live our lives with a great deal of fear. Fear certainly pervades the social and political discourses of our times, and manages to seep into every sector of our lives from how we spend our money, to how we operate in relationships and even how we worship. […]
April 1, 2011
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Celebrate… then into the wilderness…
Hello folks. Since you are on this email list, I’m assuming that you saw our “urgent” financial email. A situation like that one is cause for some concern, and in this case also cause for some celebration. The community responded in a variety of ways. The Leadership Team was supportive, Brent (and maybe others, but […]
March 30, 2011
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Our financial need right now…
Hello folks. After my “joke” on Sunday about us using our email list to solicit funds, this feels a bit like the least attractive sort of irony. That said, there doesn’t seem to be a lot of effective communication options for the issue at hand, so (with the Leadership Team’s approval), I want to let […]
May 29, 2011
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