Tag: Deconstruct Church

  • Lessons

    Lessons

    We’re in church to worship. And after the big opening, we slow it down, like the second track on an album; it’s time to have a seat, relax, and listen. Not all groups do worship the same way, but we nearly always read scripture. Arguably, it is the one constant. Even without music or prayer…

  • Church

    Church

    When I speak about “church” I speak about all the faithful Christians in the world trapped in the mind-numbing semantics of their denominational pigsties AND those constellations of congregations who refuse to be part of anything bigger or play denominational politics or play nicely with others AND those free agents running around all by themselves…

  • Music

    Music

    I was raised on Peter, Paul, and Mary and Pete Seeger. We listened to show tunes and the Beatles. Total Boomer parents. A flower child’s child. And the culture outside our house was the last hurrah of Top-40 radio: the era when everybody really did hear the same songs on the radio. Before the whole…

  • Entrance

    Entrance

    How do we enter into church? The building, the people, the concept… How do we come in? Do we walk…stroll…shimmy? Do we slink in and sit in the back? Stride to the front? Get lost in the middle? Do we seek out the familiar pew in the familiar space? Is it the same community of…

  • How to start deconstructing church

    How to start deconstructing church

    I want to help make the church better. Seriously better. Like the kind of thing where everybody feels like there is a place for them. Where everybody is connected and a full participant. I also want to help make church even more like GOD wants it to be and less like we’ve come to expect it to…