Our Garage Band Xmas Concerts #10 are just around the corner! Sunday, December 16 at 4pm & 7pm. Our 10thyear! This is kind of a bid deal for me. But […]
Advent: A Season in the Dark
We have entered the season of Advent, the dark season before Christmas. The lights, songs and bells of Christmas can already be experienced in the background. This is a threshold […]
There Must Be Something More Than This
This year, for the first time ever, I went to Las Vegas. It was mainly to see Phish play on Halloween. It was awesome. Truly awesome. My Phish Phamily welcomed […]
All Saints Poem, by Rick Carlson
This poem was written by Spirit Garage community participant Rick Carlson. I knew that he was a poet, so I asked him if he’d be willing to write a poem […]
A Shout-Out to Crescent Cove, One of our Partners-in-Giving!
by Melissa Johnston, Partners-in-Giving Champion Imagine being a parent and then being told that your child has a condition that’s “incompatible with life”. That is what the Neonatologist told my […]
21 Years Later
21 years ago I was hired to be the “Minister of Music” at Spirit Garage, the Church With The Really Big Door. There was a real excitement around the startup […]
Is Slavery Just our Nature?
This post comes from the champion of our Partners-in-Giving, Michael (Bear)Meyer. This Sunday is Freedom Sunday, and we’ll hear more about their work in church, but here is a word from […]
September 12
I know where I was on September 11, 2001, but I can’t recall what was happening on September 12. I was probably mourning for lives lost and angry about plots […]
A Worship Service to Honor Survivors of Sexual Violence
These last weeks have been tough ones for people who have suffered sexual abuse, sexual violence, and other experiences that felt less-than-consensual. I don’t know why those kinds of crimes […]
All Square is Opening!
A Word from All Square’s Partners-in-Giving Champion, Maria Anderson: On September 8th, 2018, there will be a new restaurant opening in the Longfellow neighborhood of Minneapolis. The restaurant is All Square, […]