Blog, Blog ILW, Blog ILW 4, If Love Wins, Week 4
In reflecting on the final chapters of Love Wins and the book as a whole, I am heartened by a different type of good news that it and projects like Darkwood Brew bring: the news that dialogue is alive and well both within and across faith communities in the United...
Blog, Blog ILW, Blog ILW 4, If Love Wins, Week 4
From Scott… I’ve been on the road much of this week with a crazy schedule. I’m working on a photo essay about Community for the United Church of Christ’s Still Speaking Magazine. I contribute photographs and articles to the publication on a...
Blog, Blog ILW, Blog ILW 4, If Love Wins, Week 4
We’ve been heartened by the strong, positive response to our “If Love Wins … What Now?” series! Since the series began, our viewership has taken another leap forward – over doubling what it was for the last series and expanding more...
Blog, Blog ILW, Blog ILW 4, If Love Wins, Week 4
For someone like me knowing (and knowing is more than just an intellectual assent) that God’s love wins in the end provides the only reason to do the stuff God invites me to do in the world. I mean, if it were up to me I would spend all my time driving around in...
Blog, Blog ILW, Blog ILW 4, If Love Wins, Week 4
A while back I was rummaging through my CD collection and came upon a Chesky sound testing CD. I remembered there was a demonstration of analog vs. digital recording and the effects of copying. In the analog version (some of you may be old enough to remember this) we...
Blog, Blog ILW, Blog ILW 3, If Love Wins, Week 3
“Familiarity can lead to unfamiliarity. We see something so much that we assume we know and understand what it is.” These two sentences were the most impactful to me of what I read in the chapters for this week because I have totally been there. You see...
Blog, Blog ILW, Blog ILW 3, If Love Wins, Week 3
Scott Griessel’s last post, with its upbeat-yet-uncomfortable quote from Walt Whitman about celebrating himself, reminds me of a similarly-edgy observation by author and activist, Marianne Williamson (which has often been misattributed to Nelson Mandela): Our...
Blog, Blog ILW, Blog ILW 3, If Love Wins, Week 3
Scott’s blog for the third week of our “If Love Wins, What Now?” series at Darkwood Brew. I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. -Walt Whitman, first three lines...
Blog, Blog ILW, Blog ILW 3, If Love Wins, Week 3
God’s love wins through the power of the Spirit in the resurrection of Jesus as the Christ…now what? With worries about our future, and especially our future with the Divine power that moves in and through the universe, taken care of in a promise to be...
Blog, Blog ILW, Blog ILW 2, If Love Wins, Week 2
As I was reading the chapters of Love Wins for this week’s post, I couldn’t help but think of them in light of the declaration of the impending judgement day which Harold Camping and his followers believed was to be yesterday. I admit, I got caught up in...
