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The ancient Greeks picked 7 knock-your-socks-off human made features of their world. They are (or were) amazing but they aren’t the only wonders of this world we share. We’re spending the months of June and July at the Minnehaha Falls bandstand celebrating 7 more wonders among the many that exist around and within us.
Read MoreOne groove after another – it’s what happens when you press play on life. Spring turns to summer. There are new relationships, jobs, health and financial situations. New vaccines come along with new variants. New awareness brings new feelings, opportunities and challenges. Change hits and your life, our world must seek rhythms in a new groove.
Read MoreIt is one of those words that drives us crazy because the quest for it never ends and the harder we chase it the emptier we feel. So what is enough? Is it what you already have, or something you can never have? The question of enough creeps into every nook and cranny of your life; your money and your stuff, your expectations and ambitions, even yourself. Join us as we look at what enough thinking does to us, and what it can do for us.
Read MoreEaster is coming. It’s coming after a year of being sealed up and weighed down by the pandemic and a handful or two of other things, including winter. On Easter, Sunday, April 4, Fabric gathered via video livestreams to have some fun despite those stones. Let’s take a break from pushing them. And we might even be able to realize that they don’t seal us off from what really matters as much as we think. We are calling it, “Jesus & Sisyphus.” Watch the amazing video gathering or listen to the podcast to find out why!
Read MoreDo you have it? Not the room with the couch you’ve spent more time on than ever in these pandemic months, but the room you need to live, to breathe, to be. It’s hard to feel human or treat others that way when you are squeezed from the inside and the outside. That living room evaporates with demands, judgements, expectations and rules. One way of understanding Jesus is that he came to do just this; restore our living room. Time for a rehab of yours? Join Fabric as we take three weeks to rediscover some living room wisdom together!
Read MoreFor eons we didn’t need to know it, now for centuries we haven’t caught on to it, but today we have no choice but to recognize it: this planet is our place and we need to find our place in it. The days of thinking we can be apart from nature are over - we are inseparably part of nature. Let’s explore the joy-filled and promise-laden place of being part of our planet - I hate to say it, but - before it is too late...
Read MoreWelcome to 2021. We have come through a remarkable year of turmoil, inequity, reckoning, and loss. We have made strangers of each other and even, perhaps, become strange to ourselves. How are you? In this new year what is not only worthy of your opting into, but also possible? That’s where Valarie Kaur’s (See No Stranger) Revolutionary Love comes in. It reverberates with Jesus’ calls to love our neighbors as ourselves - and even our opponents - in a way that not only changes the game but helps us stay in it with our whole selves. Join us with your whole self this January!
Read MoreThis Christmas Eve, we engaged 5 Golden Things - music, food, story, rest, and together. These are often overlooked treasures that glow with the potential to keep weaving us together deeply. There were thoughtful moments, uproarious joy, beautiful music...something for all ages!
Read MoreYou thought the other stuff was hard, welcome to raising up what you gave birth to. Every day it has new needs. Of its own! Not yours. And tomorrow again. Yet, the joy of seeing your ‘baby’ come into its own brings joy you can’t measure. But then one day it starts taking paths you hadn’t chosen. Your child wants to wander not be a carpenter, your song wants to go somewhere you don’t, your company outgrows your leadership. How do you let go of what you gave your life for? Merry Christmas!
Read MoreWin/lose is the game we usually play, but in the end it becomes lose/lose. So we turn to compromise. Not quite what either of us want, but what we will settle for. Really? Is that the best we can do? Four years ago we faced a divisive election and today another that feels like round two on steroids. Back then we met it with a vision for Better Than Compromise that still feels true and relevant today, so we are revisiting that vision to see how it can continue to lead us today. Join the conversation!
Read MoreWhat does that word conjure up in you? For many it is worn and tired carrying baggage better left behind. But is that it? Citizenship is more than a birth certificate and a passport. To be a citizen is a gift and a duty, it comes with rights and responsibilities, but most of all, it is who you can be in building a world that we all want to be part of. On November 3 you have a chance to show the kind of citizen you are - and voting is only the beginning. Tune in for a new vision and steps that can make this a more perfect union.
Read MoreSo why is it? You don’t mean to hurt people, or to do the same thing you did last time, and you never intended to let the situation get out of control like that but it did...and it’s a mess...again. We all have many emotions, tendencies and reactions ready to go within us. They all have a place, but most were never meant to run the shop, or your life. That’s what happens when you feed the animals. Join us for a little help in getting the wrong stuff out of the driver’s seat of your life, and right stuff in it.
Read MoreWhat will it take to get to the other side of this pandemic moment? A lot of people are ready to cross the road and get...where exactly? Getting to the other side well will take some honest questions and some new thinking about what life on the other side.
Read MoreFabric continues to listen for that voice both deep inside and beyond us that calls us to do justice, love kindness, and limp humbly with our God. We also continue our own imperfect wrestling with our role as an antiracist community and as individuals.
Read MoreOf all the things you are probably choosing to live right now, one is probably your relationships. This season of ‘shelter in place’ with its hardships, isolation and forced togetherness is stressing all of our relationships...but coming back to the table and practicing…
Read MoreEaster… is it happening? Everything else is cancelled as we Stay at Home. We will have to wait for the brunches and egg hunts. Fabric won't host a physical gathering like we love to do. But like crocus poking up through the snow, life worth living is not waiting. We’ll do some pretty great not-together celebrating on April 12 and you’ll want to be there as we get not-together!
Read MoreWorth Living For - It’s always exciting to know something is waiting just around the corner, unless that something is your midlife crisis. Maybe that’s years off for you, or it’s too late because you’ve already crashed headlong into it. Doesn’t matter. Today is the day to remember what is worth living for and to live for it. Worth Living For is about the simple and the grand stuff of life, and the simple and grand moves that make the difference. Remembering what’s worth living for is worth taking time for. Here’s what we’ll be talking about…
Read MoreCareIQ is a toolbox of insights and understandings everyone needs to deal with the tough situations of life where words of encouragement or advice don’t work. *See the printable bookmark with the list of tools here. We are continuing our CareIQ equipping with a special eye towards mental health: What is mental health exactly? How do you care for your own? What can you, should you do for those around you living with a mental health challenge? If you’ve got the answers, stay home. If this is as difficult for you as it is for the rest of us, come on by!
Read MoreNot One Stone - Starting Over with God, Faith & Church. Seismic changes are going on in the religious world; the walls are tumbling down and it’s about time. Whether you’re a happy church-goer, giving or given up on it all, or are new to the whole God-thing, this is about you. The task of tearing down to discover what is real isn’t just for skeptics but for all who care to grow. It’s a way of life, and one that we can do better together than alone.
Read MoreThe Gift Exchange (December 1-29, 2019) Christmas parties and families do this all the time - you trade names and give something and get something. Hopefully what you get will be better than what you gave. Sometimes what you have to give away isn’t so easy to give up - especially when you aren’t sure what you’ll get in return. There are bigger things in life that we have to give away in order to get what really matters… what Christmas promises. Are you ready to give it to get it?
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