Shaping Communities

We have inherited a large house, a great “world house” in which we have to live together—black and white, Easterner and Westerner, Gentile and Jew, Catholic and Protestant, Moslem and Hindu—a family...

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Making Space

Signs are everywhere that Bulk Trash day is coming. I’ve seen used toys, broken cabinets, old computer monitors and TVs, mounds of boxes, big black garbage bags stuffed full, even a piano along the side...

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Dying Well

In the Christian practice of dying well, Christian people do things with and for one another in response to God’s strong love, translating into concrete acts our belief in the resurrection of Christ,...

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Creativity

When you express what is authentic to God’s creative Spirit within you, you bring a unique gift to the world, because no one else can say or do or see the world exactly the way you can. God’s Spirit...

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Healing

Healing events are daily signs of the divine mercy that is surging through the world and guiding it toward its final perfection. Healing is an indispensable part of the coming wholeness that God intends...

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Hospitality

The Christian practice of hospitality is the practice of providing a space to take in a stranger. It also encompasses the skills of welcoming friends and family to our tables, to claim the joy of homecoming. When...

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Singing Our Lives

Something is shared in singing that goes beyond the words alone. This something has taken shape over many centuries in a practice that expresses our deepest yearning and dearest joy: the practice of singing...

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Testimony

In testimony, people speak truthfully about what they have experienced and seen, offering it to the community for the edification of all…It is a deeply shared practice – one that is possible...

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Forgiveness

Forgiveness involves us in a whole way of life that is shaped by an ever-deepening friendship with God and with other people. The central goal of this practice is to reconcile, to restore communion —...

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Thinking in the Box

Our mantra for Lent this year is “Wear the box. Be the box. Think in the box.” (Don’t forget the hand motions!) It’s an easy summary (43 characters for a tweet) of what we are doing. As we make...

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