Fifteen years ago this month I had the opportunity to create something unlike anything I’d ever done—or had ever been done before in a church. The Renaissance Service (TM) took place on Wednesday evenings in the candlelit dark, inviting people to look to the arts as a window to the divine. There was poetry, prayer,Continue reading “Treasure from the Vault”
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“It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on a battlefield.” —William Butler Yeats
If Someone Put a Gun to My Head
I live on the Westside of L.A., a part of the city that is known for entertainment, technology, health food, alternative medicine, progressive education, and tolerance of every sort of spirituality except “judgmental Christianity.” If you happen to be one of those people who go to church, that’s ok, just as long as it’s notContinue reading “If Someone Put a Gun to My Head”
No More Than A Hundred Years Are We Given
So begins the song Mighty Sound by the band Tim B Told. A week ago I knew nothing about them. Now they are working their way under my skin, my psyche, my spirit like threads of silken light. Maybe they’ll do the same for you. Pax
What Does Liberation Look Like?
There is a preconception in our culture that to be a person of faith means to live a small, tight, narrow life, but that has not been my experience. Far from it. In truth, the deeper I go, the freer I get, until all there is are the gifts God has given me and theContinue reading “What Does Liberation Look Like?”
Heather Choate Davis 