Planning Our 2009 Gathering
Over the years, many EP endorsers have asked us to hold a Gathering dedicated to talking about economic issues, and at the end of last summer’s gathering, the board agreed that we would move that...
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A Great Gathering
Thanks to everyone for a great gathering. One sign of how important our topics were is we began conversations much larger than we could carry on during the time allotted. We’re hoping we can continue...
View ArticleThe Koinonia Story in a Nutshell
Thanks to Church of the Servant King in Eugene, Oregon Koinonia Farm Director Bren Dubay and Ekklesia Project Director Brent Laytham met during Pentecost 2008. Bren was visiting the folks in Eugene to...
View ArticleWhat it is, and is not, to be an EP Endorser
Early on, we said that The Ekklesia Project was a “school for subversive friendship,” an opportunity to discover friends you didn’t know you had who were busy letting Jesus turn the world right-side up...
View ArticleWhere Strangers Quickly Become Friends
The Ekklesia Project Gathering is a place where strangers quickly become friends. This is my third Gathering, having come last year and once way back in 2002. I’m learning that this is a time and...
View ArticleSubmerging Church
This blog by EP Endorser Lee Wyatt is running on the Slow Church website run by Chris Smith. Though we live (or have lived) in the age of the Emerging/Emergent Church, I have a different proposal for a...
View ArticleBetween the Narrative and the Psalm
Ninth Sunday After Pentecost Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2 Samuel 11:1-15 , Psalms “I started to believe that I was special and became increasingly egocentric and narcissistic… I made a...
View ArticleLoving Those People
Easter 5, Year C John 13:31-35 She stood outside of the meeting room, a cigarette in hand–crying. This was a weekend spiritual retreat, a time of renewal, but for this woman it was clearly painful,...
View ArticleThe Happiness Market
Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost Ecclesiastes 1:2, 12-14, 2:18-23 Colossians 3:1-11 Luke 12:13-21 When I was a child, the adult members of Pittsburgh society...
View ArticleNearly there…
Absent a lectionary commentary this week, let this reflection on the practices of Lent (written by EP Coordinator Brent Laytham) serve instead. Written at Lent’s beginning, it may help remind us what...
View ArticleRegional Gatherings
By Ekklesia ProjectUpdate on Regional Gatherings: this year we will have one regional gathering, at Johnson City, taking place on November 10. The deadline for registration was October 15. Hopefully...
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Love for Lent
By Ekklesia Project Our friends at Church of the Sojourners are sharing a devotional for Lent. “During Lent, when we remember Christ’s death, let’s not forget that the Roman Empire executed Jesus...
View ArticleWeekly Prayer
By Ekklesia ProjectBeginning on Thursday 6/11 we will be offering weekly prayer on Zoom for those who can join us. This will begin at 9 PM EDT and we will offer recordings of the prayers when they...
View ArticleWeekly Prayer – week 2
By Ekklesia ProjectWe will gather again this week for prayer on Zoom at 9pm eastern/ 6pm pacific. If you’ve already registered, you can join directly at this link: Evening Prayer. If you would like to...
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Lenten Prayer Sessions
By Ekklesia ProjectWe are grateful that several endorsers and friends of the Ekklesia Project have agreed to lead prayer sessions on Zoom during the season of Lent. We hope these topics will be helpful...
View ArticleSubmerging Church
By Ekklesia ProjectThis blog by EP Endorser Lee Wyatt is running on the Slow Church website run by Chris Smith. Though we live (or have lived) in the age of the Emerging/Emergent Church, I have a...
View ArticleBetween the Narrative and the Psalm
By Jim McCoy Ninth Sunday After Pentecost Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2 Samuel 11:1-15 , Psalms “I started to believe that I was special and became increasingly egocentric and narcissistic… I...
View ArticleLoving Those People
By Ragan SutterfieldEaster 5, Year C John 13:31-35 She stood outside of the meeting room, a cigarette in hand–crying. This was a weekend spiritual retreat, a time of renewal, but for this woman it was...
View ArticleThe Happiness Market
By Debra Dean Murphy Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost Ecclesiastes 1:2, 12-14, 2:18-23 Colossians 3:1-11 Luke 12:13-21 When I was a child, the adult members of...
View ArticleNearly there…
By Ekklesia ProjectAbsent a lectionary commentary this week, let this reflection on the practices of Lent (written by EP Coordinator Brent Laytham) serve instead. Written at Lent’s beginning, it may...
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