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January 6, 2016 by Praxis
Communities of Discovery
What Improv taught us about the spiritual life while we were at the Young Adult Retreat “Isn’t improv hard?” My wife asked me at breakfast, after I’d been waxing poetic about the 2015 Young Adult retreat, where my friends Barbara Allen and Bill Sabo led us in exploring the spirituality of improvisation. “Not really,” I […]Archives
September 30, 2015 by Karl Stevens
How do we form pilgrim communities?
When Greg Hitzhusen was a student at Yale Divinity School, he and a few others started an Outing Club, which took students out onto the campus for weekly meditations, and also took a spring break hiking trip every year. One day, while they were hiking in North Carolina, they came out onto Shining Rock at […]Archives
September 4, 2015 by Jane Gerdsen
Joseph Kovitch: 21st Century Street Preacher
The Rev. Joseph Kovitch, serves as priest in charge to St. Matthew’s Westerville and has had a vision of helping an inherited church slowly transform itself into a Praxis Community – realizing that being the church means you can follow Jesus, love your neighbors, share in spiritual practices, and pay attention to what God is […]Archives
August 7, 2015 by Jane Gerdsen
Praxis Leaders Gathering 2015
Join us September 19th for a day of conversation, reflection, encouragement and good food (of course!). We will meet at the Near East House, an emerging praxis community in Columbus. This is a gathering of our creative partners – so we look forward to deeper conversation and sharing about your communities, experiments, and insights as […]Archives
August 3, 2015 by Karl Stevens
Who will I love, and how will I love them well?
This year, Praxis Communities are thinking and writing about the question “How do we live in relationship?” Different individuals and communities will read this question in different ways, and nuance it to fit their own questions and understandings. I’m most interested in romantic relationships, and so my version of the question is “Who will I love, […]Archives
July 16, 2015 by Karl Stevens
The Circle: Exploring the Art of Storytelling
This summer, Saint Matthew’s, Westerville, has been inviting everyone between ages 18 and 180 to unplug from digital media and connect to the human experience through the art of storytelling. Working with the Storytellers of Central Ohio, they welcome professionals, a novices, and a seekers to come and spend an evening with great spoken stories and discover […]Archives
July 15, 2015 by Jane Gerdsen
I am a Missionary
My friend Stephanie Spellers talks about what it means to be a missionary in the world today. She says, “Today our neighborhoods need us to step out. Today we need to go out and discover what it is they already know and love. How is it that God is already active in that world around […]Archives
June 30, 2015 by Jane Gerdsen
New Hope Christian African Fellowship – A Story of God With Us
I first met Emmanuel in 2008. He knocked on the door of the church where I was working. He introduced himself as an Episcopalian new to this country (he had only been in the US for a few weeks) looking for a church home in Dayton. He told me his story of leaving Rwanda following […]Archives
May 29, 2015 by Aaron Wright