During our Sunday Eucharist liturgy walk through this past Sunday at 9:30am, someone asked an important question: “How should we ‘examine ourselves’ when we come to the Lord’s Table?” The question arises from a direct quote of St. Paul from his correspondence to the Corinthians.…
How We Gather During the Week: Table Groups
You hear us speak almost every week about our Table Groups. I thought I’d take just a few minutes to describe what we are talking about when we say “Table Group”. 🙂 Table Groups meet in homes, over a meal, with space to encounter each…
Providing Housing For Asylum Seekers
I made a brief announcement this past Sunday (October 27) about our desire to partner with Anglican Immigrant Initiative to help host and sponsor asylum seekers who are currently living in detainment facilities. Check out their website to see some of their vision and explanation…
The Kingdom Comes In Us AND Through Us
What God does through us, he also does in us. Scripture describes this dynamic in organic metaphors: Good soil produces good fruit (Luke 8:11ff) Good tree produces good fruit (Matthew 7.15ff) Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks (Matthew 12.33ff) Branch cannot…
Evil and Suffering: Does God Really Care More Than We Do?
One of our axioms for Living a Sacramental Life is “God cares about (all of) it more than we do.” But when we start to think about this in light of evil and suffering in our world, it tends to open up a can of…
How to Be With the God Who is Here
To say that God is real is not profound… because if he isn’t real, what are we doing as a church? To say that God is so real he most fully meets us right where we really are is to acknowledge that God doesn’t fully…
The Eucharist is About Divine Union
We talked this past week in the first session of our Living a Sacramental Life class about it all comes down to love. Life is about divine communion in love. We mentioned quite a few Scriptures in our class, but one we didn’t read is…
How Do We Respond to Racism?
What do we do when our President (or a mayor, governor, or pastor) says and defends something that is full of hate speech, white supremacy, and prejudice? Here are some (unfinished, incomplete) thoughts on how we at The Table think about and approach leaders who…
Story Night Goes Public July 11
The sharing of story has been a defining practice in our community. We started our church by each person sharing 3 stories from their lives and the community responding with appreciation and curiosity. Then a year or so later we held a monthly Story Night.…
What Do We Do With Our Shame?
What is shame? Brené Brown says shame is “the intensely painful feeling or experience of believing that we are flawed and therefore unworthy of love and belonging – something we’ve experienced, done, or failed to do makes us unworthy of connection.” This kind of shame is a tool…
