Rev. Mo. Alaina Alexander

As I look at the multi-crisis, one of the things that gives me hope is that, we can't continue living this way. And I mean that literally, we cannot continue living this way. There will be points along the way where collapse makes it impossible, so that we cannot live the same way we have been. Whether we mean politically, economically, socially, or ecologically.

An issue we have frequently had while discussing what it is we are doing and planning and preparing for, here at the Abbey, has been a lack of understanding of what an Abbey even is and why we would have chosen this model. I hope to clear that up a little bit.

Ordination is, or at the very least should be, a recognition of work already being done for a community. It is a recognition that your feet are already in the muck, your hands are already grasping the plow, and your heart is already broken to feed the hungry. Sermons or Homilies (or any other form of religious speech) are invitations to join in. The minister calls to their congregation not from a place of perfection or purity, but from one deeply invested in the suffering of the world.