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Looking for Music that Makes Community Events?

matthew — Tue, 30 Sep 2014 05:39:47 +0000

January 1, 2015

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All Saints blesses next stage of Music that Makes Community

Rachel Pollak Kroh — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 07:00:00 +0000

Music that Makes Community (MMC) began as a project of All Saints Company in 2006. Read more about All Saints blesses next stage of Music that Makes Community

All Future Music that Makes Community Events

Dan Burner — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 21:54:52 +0000

June 25, 2014 to June 25, 2017

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The Tao has no gate

Donald Schell — Sun, 18 May 2014 07:00:00 +0000

Just after my two and a half weeks of driving in Malawi, I was talking with Cleve McIntosh, a South African country doctor who has studied with Richard Rohr at the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Read more about The Tao has no gate

Garbage disposal meditations on retirement

Donald Schell — Mon, 28 Apr 2014 07:00:00 +0000

I was at my office sorting through books and papers, gear and artifacts when the plumber called. We’re closing the office at the end of June when I formally retire and begin to draw my pension from Church Pension. My office is across the street from St. Read more about Garbage disposal meditations on retirement

Driving in Malawi

Donald Schell — Wed, 14 May 2014 07:00:00 +0000

I had an extended religious experience driving in Malawi. It only dawned on me after several days of driving what I was experiencing. Trying to remember, understand and write about it, some previous experiences of strangers and crowds made new sense. The experience was persistent but quiet. Read more about Driving in Malawi

In praise of excessive effort for Easter and Christmas visitors

Donald Schell — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 08:00:00 +0000

From our very first Lent in 1979 when St. Gregory of Nyssa, San Francisco only had about a dozen members we poured heroic, unreasonable effort into producing a liturgically rich, inviting Easter Vigil. And then we put word out to friends. Read more about In praise of excessive effort for Easter and Christmas visitors

Music that Makes Community - Minneapolis

Dan Burner — Mon, 06 Jan 2014 20:32:07 +0000

May 14, 2014 to May 16, 2014

Christ Church Lutheran
3244 34th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55406

You are invited to join a diverse group of skilled musicians and clergy for three days of workshops, worship and fellowship: Read more about Music that Makes Community - Minneapolis

Singing the Lord's Song

Donald Schell — Thu, 20 Mar 2014 07:00:00 +0000

What is it we’re really doing together in church?

Actually what do we think we’re doing together in any human community or collaborating group?

How do we find our God-given humanity in community? Read more about Singing the Lord's Song

Maundy Thursday Homily - April 17,2014

Dan Burner — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 07:00:00 +0000

John 13:1-17, 31b-35

All Saints Episcopal Church

San Francisco, California Read more about Maundy Thursday Homily - April 17,2014

Making Music, Growing Spirits

Dan Burner — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 18:38:10 +0000

February 9, 2014

St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church
500 De Haro Street
San Francisco, CA 94107

Parents, grandparents, and godparents; ministers, teachers, musicians; adults, teens, and children are all invited to explore ways to engage children in the spiritual practice of singing. Read more about Making Music, Growing Spirits

Music that Makes Community - Sonoma Wine Country

Dan Burner — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 19:49:07 +0000

January 19, 2014 to January 22, 2014

Bishop's Ranch Retreat and Conference Center
5797 Westside Road
Healdsburg, CA 95448

You are invited to join a diverse group of skilled musicians and clergy for three days of workshops, worship and fellowship: Read more about Music that Makes Community - Sonoma Wine Country

Sign of Jesus' Table, Sign of our Baptism

Rick Fabian — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 08:00:00 +0000

SING: In your light shall we see light

I have led three church groups visiting Ethiopian Christians on the feast of Timkat, which celebrates Christ’s Baptism. Read more about Sign of Jesus' Table, Sign of our Baptism

The Work

Donald Schell — Wed, 24 Jul 2013 07:00:00 +0000

One of the biggest changes that happened around the decade leading up to and following the second Vatican Council which Pope John XXIII convened October 11, 1962, nine years to the day before I was ordained a deacon in the Episcopal Church. Vatican II is a workable marker for changes that were happening ecumenically throughout the Christian church. And actually, today, it’s startling to remember what a heady thing it was that the Roman Catholic Church gathered Anglican/Episcopal, Lutheran, and ecumenical Protestant (Taize) consultants in the deliberations of the Council and that together we launched an International Consultation on English Texts in the Liturgy. Read more about The Work

Church Camp: This isn't "like church" it IS church

Donald Schell — Wed, 07 Aug 2013 07:00:00 +0000

My wife Ellen and I just returned from a week at the Bishop’s Ranch, an Episcopal Diocese of California Conference and Camp Center in Healdsburg California. We were there as grandparent participants in the annual Family Camp that Bishop Bill Swing asked us to found twenty-five years ago.

It was the longest our grandson had been away from his parents and the longest time we’d been responsible for him. He is three years old. He experienced a the different kind of independence and interaction with many adults that the temporary village of Family Camp makes possible. He did arts projects alongside us (or vice versa). He began exploring water games in the swimming pool. We participated in daily Eucharist with us. We read him bedtime stories and talked about how he missed his mom and dad. At the end of camp he was eager to see them and then wondered if we could bring them back with us for “more camp.” The three of us had a rich and joyful time together. Read more about Church Camp: This isn't "like church" it IS church

Why?

Donald Schell — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 07:00:00 +0000

Our oldest grandchild is three, or more accurately three and a third. Many readers won’t be surprised to learn that his word of the day (and week and month) is
- Why?
When our own youngest was this age, I discovered that if I didn’t try to respond his questions with answers, but paused
hmmmm
and then asked,
- What do you think? Read more about Why?

Music that Makes Community - New York City

Dan Burner — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 20:53:29 +0000

October 23, 2013 to October 25, 2013

Trinity Wall Street/St. Paul's Chapel
74 Trinity Place
New York, NY 10006

You are invited to join a diverse group of skilled musicians and clergy for three days of workshops, worship and fellowship: Read more about Music that Makes Community - New York City

Workshop in Paperless Music

Dan Burner — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 22:04:16 +0000

October 26, 2013

Trinity Wall Street/St. Paul's Chapel
74 Trinity Place
New York, NY 10006

Please join us for a one day workshop exploring paperless music and it's value in liturgical and non-liturgical situations. Learn how to lead this practice of music-making through experience and gain an appreciation for the depth that this type of singing can bring to a variety of gatherings.

This one day event is being held in conjunction with the three-day Music that Makes Community workshop. This brief exposure will give those who are unable to attend the full MMC event a look at the practice of paperless music. Read more about Workshop in Paperless Music

Christmas Pageant Workshop

Dan Burner — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 22:07:46 +0000

September 28, 2013

St. Gregory of Nyssa Church
500 De Haro Street
San Francisco, CA

A Christmas Pageant Workshop with All Saints Company will look at creative ways to renew the timeless Christmas story. It is never too early to start planning for this program before the rush of the Christmas season. We are lay folk, priests, professional actors and dancers, Sunday School teachers and others who never cease to be inspired by the story of Jesus’ birth and its power to bring communities together. We’ll meet to share our stories, read from each other’s scripts and play with making our own impromptu telling of the story. Read more about Christmas Pageant Workshop

Part 2: Iona, martyrs on the beach and falling in love

Donald Schell — Tue, 28 May 2013 07:00:00 +0000

After forty years of asking people to try and reflect on new ways of practicing church, I’m still loving helping our gathered communities discover fresh ways to do this, to be church, to gather openly in Jesus’ presence inviting all in, but this visit to Scotland, seeing how my daughter is making her life without church community, sensing how common that is among her friends and colleagues, seeing Britain’s empty or repurposed churches (a bar, a warehouse, an urban club, subdivided into housing), I sense an inkling of a future of loss; so much that we love and hope to hold on to is dying. Read more about Part 2: Iona, martyrs on the beach and falling in love