Sublime

She lived in the midst of God’s most treasured souls: the poor, the disregarded, and the humiliated. She had made her schoolhouse into a humble kingdom of acceptance,

Communities in which we grow and flourish, however, last over time and are built by people who are faithful to one another and committed to a shared purpose.

Rather, it’s about becoming so fully present that the line between sacred and ordinary is obliterated and the face of the Beloved shines from every face—humans, bees, juniper trees.

practice calls us into a

With Rosa and Charles Taylor, I’m maintaining that our shared and contested sense of the good life is fundamental to our ways of being in the world. Therefore, I agree that technological acceleration has shifted the imagination of the church.

whatever authority we hold, we hold it for the good of the entire group, not for our own sense of self.

James K. A. Smith

What if the opposite of loneliness is finding ourselves together? What if friends aren’t threats or competitors but gifts?

The church must be viewed as the people of God, not the institution.