About the Project
Here’s a paradox…
We’re a Christian community that is put off by organized religion.
We’re also put off by the way tradition has defined what it means to be Christian.
For some time, we’ve been bumping into the limits imposed on us by the traditional way the Christian Story has been told.
Our community (in Raleigh, NC) is doing a lecture/discussion group on Wednesday evenings this year, hoping it will lead us toward a better way of telling the Christian Story. We’d love you to join us in person (directions), or join us on this blog, making comments, and thinking about things with us.
We’re not unaware that people become deeply devoted to a particular way of telling the Story, and it isn’t our intent to provoke conflict with other Christians. Like many, we used to assume that our way of telling the Story was the way.
We no longer think that.
What led us to break from our own invested positions was the many unintended and negative consequences attending the old way. As our vision of God and ourselves has grown, the way we used to talk about God, Jesus, and the Bible just couldn’t contain our expanding experience.
Again, we’d love you to join us in this conversation. We feel like we’ve launched out on a journey without road maps.
I will be the primary speaker this year, working with a team to prepare and write the lessons. However, I’m not sure that everything I will say, I even believe. We’re thinking of this year as a way of starting a dialogue that will help us together, to find our way toward a better way of talking about our spiritual experience. As such, your comments are welcome and desired.