I love worshiping at Church in the Cliff. I celebrate that our worship space is in a community center overlooking the pond. We don’t have the privilege of retreating to four walls which are all our own. And so we worship, right there in front of other people, in front of those who come in just wanting a drink of water, or to play a pickup basketball game. We sing in front of the geese and the morning mommy walkers. We break bread and drink coffee and sometimes, have shimmering transcendent experience of the Divine. All right there in Kidd Springs Recreation Center.
The Art of Cultivating Relationships
While it may be those on the emergent spectrum that really give voice to relationality and friendship as a spiritual practice, people on the Way have been doing it since the beginning of the Church –and have also have been humbled by the task.
New Leadership Team at Church in the Cliff
We would like to congratulate the new Board, which was elected unanimously a few weeks ago. The Board members are: Ross Prater, Moderator John Means, Treasurer Kristin Schutz, Clerk James Fairchild, Trustee Cara Stoneham, Trustee The Board met for the first time last Monday, July 13th and is off to a great start. The board will be posting bios …
Iranian Art Show Update
First, just an update from last week. Scott, Kristin and I have been prayerfully considering how our community could support Fereshteh and the other women in the Iranian Democratic Society who approached us about a potential speaker series/photo show. After hearing more of their story and reflecting on the very tight time frame (they hope to put this together for …
Tragedy and transcendence
In looking for art this week, I find myself pulled toward one of my favorites: Jean Michel Basquiat. Basquiat was a painter in the 1980s whose work was infused with music. Early in his career, he was in several bands in New York’s new wave/no wave scene. Many of his paintings revered the giants of the be-bop era. Like some …
Iran Art Show and Twitter
This week Scott, Kristin and I met with a group of Iranian American women who are human rights activists and survivors of political imprisonment. They are organizing an upcoming art show and speaker series to commemorate the thirty years which have passed since the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and to tell the story of human rights abuses in that country, especially the 1988 Iran …
Music as Meditation
Our resident rock star, Paul Semrad, will be leading us this week in a conversation about how music can function as a form of meditation. Paul has been organizing our music team the past several months at CitC and incarnates the search for God in both the sacred and the secular. His mother was the music director at a local church so he grew …
Social Investment: City Gardens and the Working Poor
Each week I post one entry that relates to our ongoing conversation about how to love the world back to life. One of the joys of pastoring a church such as Church in the Cliff is how engaged this community is in social investment of various forms. We give money, we organize, we volunteer, we help each other, we enter into relationship with the …
Fasting and Failure
So it is 10:35am and I have already broken my planned day long fast. Well, actually I broke it even earlier. Here is what happened: I woke up and had to parent my toddler. We are “potty-learning.” This is intense business. And I found myself less than loving and engaging in multiple power struggles until I realized I was hungry, …
Fox 4
So Scott Shirley and I will be on Fox 4 news tonight at 5:30 talking about how we use social networking in our church. They wanted to see me in action in my regular life, so it was pretty hectic as I was the parent volunteer in our Montessori Coop this morning. And baby Perl had to go to the emergency …
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