Becoming Living Community
Becoming Living Community

Every healthy community needs compelling gathering energies and generative value. Community in and of itself, for itself, is not enough. In living community, the ties that bind/bond us are not solely the mental agreements and commonalities of individual preference, but the experiential qualities that mark the field among us each time we gather. These are the deeper lived values and ways of being together that have a collective life and can be felt when we enter the field—which is not bound to particular individuals, leaders or abstract ideals.

Here are some of those qualities commonly experienced in our community gatherings and groups.

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Our Christ Commission – Divine Communion
Our Christ Commission – Divine Communion

In this writing, and those to follow in the weeks ahead, we will immerse ourselves in this divine communion through focusing on “Beloved Community,” which is one of the fundamental living lineages of ICN. We’ll revisit some of the core, foundational writings on this topic from years past, particularly how we “practice community” together—our ways of engaging in processes and practices together to deepen, inhabit, and be divine communion among us.

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Christianity, CommunityLuke HealyChristianity, Divine Vocation, Mystical Community, Divine CommunionComment
Deaths, Entombments, and Resurrections
Deaths, Entombments, and Resurrections

Eastertide is the 50-day period in the Christian calendar that starts with Easter and concludes with the beginning of Pentecost. It is believed that “Easter” is connected to the Proto-Germanic word austron, which means “dawn” and reflects themes of rebirth and renewal associated with springtime.

So, during Eastertide, we will reflect on the resurrection of Jesus for insight into how we might live into our resurrections (renewals) more fully.

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Becoming, WeCreatingRobert Martin & Beth BieryDivine Vocation, WeCreating, Eastertide, ResurrectionComment
Resurrections Re-Create Us
Resurrections Re-Create Us

Eastertide is the 50-day period in the Christian calendar that starts with Easter and concludes with the beginning of Pentecost. It is believed that “Easter” is connected to the Proto-Germanic word austron, which means “dawn” and reflects themes of rebirth and renewal associated with springtime.

So, during Eastertide, we will reflect on the resurrection of Jesus for insight into how we might live into our resurrections (renewals) more fully.

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Becoming, WeCreatingRobert Martin & Beth BieryDivine Vocation, WeCreating, Eastertide, ResurrectionComment
Easter and our Divine Story
Easter and our Divine Story

“Jesus is Risen!    He is Risen Indeed!”

 

     Really?

 

For many persons, their answer to that sincere question determines whether they consider themselves “Christian” or not. Either we believe that the resurrection of Jesus from the dead was historical fact or it is superstitious fiction. Or perhaps we simply do not care one way or another.

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Holy Saturday with Our Divine Story
Holy Saturday with Our Divine Story

“It is finished.”

 

Uttering his last words, perhaps barely a whisper, Jesus released his last breath and died.

His struggle subsided; pain ceased; consciousness extinguished.

Jesus was dead.

 

He was taken down from the cross, and his body was hurriedly and quickly entombed before the beginning of Sabbath. Jesus felt nothing, thought nothing, was no-thing. 

 

Holy Saturday follows the crucifixion of Good Friday, just as the existential torpor of death follows the bodily struggle of dying.

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