We carry the body wisdom of seven generations in our feet. Katy, a new friend and yoga teacher, taught me this in a class this week. I’m not sure I totally understood it, but it strikes me as true. Our feet are the parts of our bodies that connect us to the earth and to our ancestors. On Saturday our …
Urban Farm Picnic this Wednesday, May 11
CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER Rescheduled for May 25 Wednesday Night Community Gathering 6-8pm picnic and weed pick at Paul Quinn College’s Food for Good Farm (join us for a tour of this Football Field turned Urban Farm!) 3837 Simpson Stuart Rd Dallas, TX 75241
Not your mother’s “Mother’s Day”
Most reflections on motherhood strike me as sacchariny, inconsequential, and over boiled. There is a long history of talking about women in the role of mother in an oversimplified way—so as to suggest that all women should seek fulfillment in their God-given role as the Goddess of the Hearth. What it boils down to is a kind of sexist trope— …
Potluck Feast this Sunday
Easter is called the ‘feast of feasts’ in the liturgical calendar. More than just one Sunday, Eastertide is actually a seven week long honeymoon for the church as we savor the sweetness of life and liberation. This Eastertide Church in the Cliff is launching a series called ‘Fresh Expressions’ and opening the door to creative and out of the ordinary …
Easter 2011 Video Round Up
Planting a Tree Part 1 from Church In The Cliff on Vimeo. Planting a Tree Part 2 from Church In The Cliff on Vimeo. Easter Closing Blessing from Church In The Cliff on Vimeo.
Darkness
Night has fallen.
Several members of our community wrote meditations for a Good Friday community art project. We share them here, grateful for community voices and relationships on this lonely night. Thank you Robert, Stephanie, Genny, Adam, and Alan for daring to wrap words around the stations of the cross.
Maundy Thursday Walking Meditation Tonight at 12 Hills Nature Center
Join us tonight at 12 Hills Nature Center to walk in the rain. Maundy Thursday Walking Meditation 12 Hills Nature Center This is an invitation to place your own story, in this wild field of a garden at this moment in time, into communion with a very old story that also takes place in a garden. The garden story of …
Holy Week Special Events
Maundy Thursday Service at 12 Hills Nature Center. 6:30pm Join us this Thursday at an urban nature preserve in Oak Cliff. Come at 6:30 to walk a bit of the trails and listen to the birds. At 7pm we will gather for a walking meditation to commemorate this day, also called the “Thursday of mysteries,” as we remember Jesus and his …
DART Stations of the Cross Cancelled
Friends, For the past two years, DART Stations of the Cross has served as a way for our community to contemplate the meaning of the cross. It has been rewarding for many of us both as participants and organizers. Unfortunately, we simply weren’t able to put it together this year. The submissions we had were beautiful and heartfelt, …
The Interior Cave
Palm Sunday is a liminal zone. The hosannas don’t hold. The crowd, like most, is vulnerable to changes in the wind. Yet I think they called out with full hearts in that moment, and their hosannas reveal a deeper truth. It reminds me of a documentary, “the Congregation” I saw several years ago which details the story of Rev. Beth Stroud, a gay pastor in the United Methodist Church.