In much of the Hebrew Scriptures God is on the move. Literally. God could erupt anywhere and people marked the spot as best they could, like Jacob positioning and anointing the stone after his radical dream of a stairway to Heaven. Before the temple in Jerusalem, Yahweh camped out with people who were also on the move, and Moses would …
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
Eating as a Spiritual Practice
Centering Summer 2009 Wednesday 1 July ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Center in God Experimenting with Practices that Nourish Scripture Passage – Luke 14:7-24 This summer we are exploring spiritual practices from within our community of faith and our Oak Cliff neighborhood. Join us as we share with each other means for connecting with God in the here and now. Week 5 Eating …
Urban Farming
LOVING 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 poor, locally and globally. Food is a political issue. I love that as …