Earthfire Friday Nights

The aim of the Earthfire community is to immerse ourselves in a constant practice of practical theology such that meaning and renewal are breathed into everything we do.

 

We are a church, but we do church very differently.

 

Our church may be found in a bonfire dance to the rhythm of drums, in voices crackling over the line of a prison phone, in the sweating whiskey glasses of late-night porch discussions, in the laughter of conversation over our weekly potluck, in chants screamed through a megaphone, or in the simple knowledge that however it may feel, you are not alone.

 

Yes, we do church differently.

 

In so doing, we seek to recapture the meaning of what it is to be church.

We seek changes in the practice of restorative & transformative justice, as church.

We seek an end to mass incarceration and the warehousing of human beings, as church.

We plant a garden with its orchards, herbs, and vegetables, and raise chickens to tend, and that is church.

We see the other as ourselves, the reflected image of the divine in all creatures, and that is church.

Our message comes through spoken word, poetry, art, teaching, resistance, the work of our hands, and conversation, as church.

 

Inasmuch as we work together to answer a call greater than ourselves, the radical call that envelopes all of creation, we are church.