Grieving Together: A Discipline for Cascadia’s Communities
When it comes to grief, we often act as if we can tunnel hastily through the mountain of our experience instead of following the natural contours of the journey. We want to get to solutions, to healing, to moving forward, without acknowledging that some terrain requires a different kind of navigation. Grief demands that we move at the pace the landscape sets, following its contours.
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Lavish Invitation and Celebration
A lavish celebration. A new rite of passage in a Seattle church that would be a stake in the ground formalizing and celebrating a new relationship. A growing church. A curious faith. At least two co-seekers together tacitly committing to supporting one another as they grow in faith in community. A welcome and recognition of all the abundance and goodness young people have to bring to our congregations.
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Back to the Spring
By the time I was fifteen, I was pretty done with church. I’d lived in two countries, three...
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Scripture Still Speaks to the Soul
This past year, Rev. Meg Dowling of Bremerton United Methodist Church in the city of Bremerton,...
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Meet the Facilitators
Our second annual Christ & Cascadia Gathering is just around the corner, and we are so excited...
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Sharing the Pulpit:
Lay Preaching Brings the Word to Life in Cascadia
The high schooler in my small group leaned in close, as if confessing a secret. “Sometimes I write...
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Prophetic Heresies
The following article is adapted from a chapter of the book Eucontamination, which wrestles with...
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Lessons from an Immigrant Family:
A Julfest Sermon
As we prepare for our upcoming Christ & Cascadia Gathering and Reimagining Preaching...
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Welcoming the Outcast
This article is an excerpt taken from Hearing the Heartbeat of God by Michael Neelley. This book...
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