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 […]
The night before, someone had asked me if I thought that life was primarily comedy or primarily tragedy. I said comedy, without really knowing why. Then, as sometimes happens in the most surprising way, I found myself sitting at our Ministerium lunch the very next day, listening as Rabbi Roger Klein supported my sense that […]
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On Saturday, May 17th a group of youth & adults met at St. Philip Episcopal Church in Columbus to play improv games and make movies that would illustrate the Easter story through the eyes of Mary Magdalene. We called our retreat “Chocolate & Awe.” I designed a series of cards so that we could all […]
Both Karl and Laurie are bored with worship as is, and are looking for ways to reinvigorate church and to make it more truly collaborative. This week they turn to Saint Gregory of Nyssa’s paperless music efforts and consider what it would mean for our churches to take the emphasis off of music performance and […]
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