Hey folks – for those of you expecting Part 2 of A (very) Short History of Hell, I’m sorry to disappoint. However, this Sunday is Mother’s Day. I initially thought it might be an interesting challenge to combine topics, but more worthy thoughts won out. We’ll return to that topic another time. This week we’re going to explore the noteworthy absence…

Given the subject line, I feel as though some explanation of how I decide what to explore in a Talky Bit might be in order. You might recall that a few months ago I asked for input from the community on what you think might be interesting to explore. I didn’t get a lot of responses and I would love more, so if you’ve got anything (and I mean anythi…

Hey folks – if your world is anything like mine, people have been wishing you a “Happy Easter” this past week. As someone who grew up in a religious culture in which Easter was a big deal (I mean, resurrections don’t happen every day, right? Or do they?), having folks that I know are irreligious saying “Happy Easter” feels like it’s in a category a…

This Sunday – Community Time, Music, Kids Table and a Talky Bit that explores happiness from the perspective of what motivates us as human beings. Boom…done…next – because sometimes I like to write a blurb that’ll fit on the screen of a phone. Details: Sunday – 10:45 a.m. at VA Cafe (171 McDermot Avenue) Important upcoming dates: Sunday, April 6th …

Hey folks – this blurb has a few additional details at the end, so I would invite you to take the moments needed to read the whole thing. Let’s start with the details about this Sunday. We’ll gather at VA Cafe at 10:45 am for some music, Community Time and a Talky Bit. In a slight change from our typical rhythm, there will not be any Kids Table pro…

Hey folks – housekeeping first. As you may have noticed, we just had two alt.Sundays in a row, but with Kids Table for both. This Sunday, which would normally be an alt.Sunday, kinda isn’t. We’ll have Community Time, music, and a Talky Bit…but no Kids Table programming. Let’s not call it anything, and just get together and enjoy having good company…

Let’s get together at VA Cafe (171 McDermot) at 10:45 a.m. to see if we can make sense of that subject line. I’m not going to unpack it at all in this email, because…that would be the whole Talky Bit. Come with your mind and heart open to sharing a slice of your life with others, making some music together, exploring the relationship between religi…

Hey folks – Just a quick note this week to let you know what’s up in our gathering this week. Most of you already know the logistics (10:45 a.m, VA Cafe, livestream here, podcast here later in the week). It’s officially and alt.Sunday, but because we had music last week, we’ll have a Talky Bit this week. You don’t need to care about this, but I lik…

Hey folks…I expect I’ll have some company when I say that I’m tired of all the hate that seems to dominate our media spaces these days and that seems in danger of poisoning the water of our “every-day-ness” as well. One of my friends likes to say that “the antidote to bad culture is good culture”, so I’m going to take a cue from that to muse a bit …

Hey folks…this a longer blurb than usual because it has extra info regarding Not Quite Christmas. If you care about that, read to the end. I know that we all experience this season differently. For some, it’s a time of connection, joy and celebration. For others, it’s a slog through a dark and complicated canyon of depression. And for many of us, i…