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This week
Nov 9, 2008
Winter Hours begin this week!
Sunday Gatherings at 5:00, followed by potluck dinner at 6:00.
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Sunday Gathering :: Taize Vespers
Nov 9, 5:00 - 7:00 pm
5:00 pm Praying together in word and song.
Followed by a potluck dinner at 6:00.
Bring something to share.
This is meditative common prayer. Gathered in the presence of God through Christ, we sing uncomplicated repetitive songs, uncluttered by too many words, allowing the mystery of God to become tangible through the beauty of simplicity.
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New essay by Nick Croston
 peace and happiness
through disbelief and questioning
You've probably heard the regular
story a million times before: A person falls down into the dumps and
gutters, depending or drugs or alcohol or another vice which helps him
escape mentally while destroying him physically. Then the
chameleon-like revelatory moment occurs in one of its many colors.
The person is found by someone who takes him into a church, or
stumbles into a church in some kind of stupor, or just willingly goes
into one himself just to curse out the local god. Often there is a plea
for forgiveness, and tears are optional. But they all end the same way:
With the discovery of the holy light, the eternal divine love, and the
peaceful happiness. The person says he was all alone in the dark before
discovering JAY-ZUZ!
I'm certainly not mocking those who are genuine in telling this
story. But this is not my story. My story, in fact, is the precise
opposite. My story begins with an overt dependence on religion which
caused me to be disturbed and depressed and generally unfulfilled and
ends with me finding peace and happiness through disbelief and
questioning.
Read more...
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