Tag: creating community

• Traveling

  ” A thing can travel everywhere, just by holding still.” These are the words of a tree in Richard Powers’ beautiful novel, The Overstory.  The story reveals how trees communicate with us and create community, supporting each other wherever they are planted. It’s a story that is giving me hope in these days of COVID-19 […]

  Teri

  April 15, 2020

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  community, creating community, The Overstory, Trees

• What can the church learn from a Starbucks barista?

  Feeling crappy about the state of the world and our nation in particular? Well, let me introduce you to Evans. Evans will make you feel better. His job—or calling, I might say—is to make you feel better. I met Evans this morning standing in line at an airport Starbucks. It was a long line. It […]

  Teri

  February 2, 2017

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  church, creating community, embodied joy, fostering community, morning ritual, Starbucks barista