Church of the Saviour: Now Online
I am excited to announce that an ongoing project titled inward/outward has finally gone online. inward/outward is an ongoing, online conversation about lived christianity as understood from the 60+ years of inward and outward journeying over at the Church of the Saviour in Washington, DC. I say "over at", but in reality one of the things that makes CoS so special is that their ecumenical approach to following Jesus over the last half-century has resulted in quite an extended family of co-followers all over the world. To date the Church has suffered from having no real online presence to speak of, in large part because it is, strictly speaking, non-existent, having died some time back to give life to a number of offspringing churches. Gordon's not your average preacher, and in order to keep the church from getting too big it split up a number of years ago and dissolved itself as an organization. Crazy, right? Peachtree and The Crystal Cathedral and all the rest would be -- are -- laughing all the way to the bank. But like the proverbial mustard seed this crazy little church continues to thrive in its own, gospel-like ironic way. Now, there's a quirky blog added to the mix -- one that hopes to pick up where the Daily Dig left off with daily inspirational emails, only instead of using them to drive some sort of conversion (a la Bruderhof), we'll use them to help readers connect with each other, so that that silly little mustard bush can keep on truckin'... It's our hope that inward/outward will become a sort of hub for the extended CoS community and a 'watering hole' on the journey of life for those who are so inclined toward the rediculous idea of taking Jesus seriously. I for one look forward to trip.
