Fabric Podcast

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Sinopse

church for people who don't like church in Minneapolis, MN

Episódios

  • Rooted in Others

    18/03/2024 Duração: 23min

    It turns out there’s more to roots than just individual plant life! Aspen groves are an inspiring reminder of our interconnectedness to one another and to all of creation. 

  • Rooted In Self

    10/03/2024 Duração: 26min

    Root systems are endlessly fascinating! We’ll kick off this new series with a look at the relationship between connection and suffering, and use a couple tools at our disposal to take a closer look at our individual roots.

  • New Guy Scraps | Hi, Pod!

    06/03/2024 Duração: 13min

    We had a week sharing stories playing Story Stitch as a community, so it seemed like a great moment to catch an inaugural "scraps" with the New Guy! Enjoy! Some links from this episode: Green Card Voices: greencardvoices.org Fabric Staff Contacts: fabricmpls.com/staff Fabric Groups: fabricmpls.com/groups  

  • New Guy: Probing Curiosity

    26/02/2024 Duração: 34min

    Curiosity about newbies is only natural! With Ian McConnell (the New Guy) talking about curiosity as a default posture toward new people and experiences, we took the opportunity to pose questions to Ian in an open Q&R (question and response) session.  Listen in and start getting to know Ian as he's getting to know Fabric!

  • New Guy | First Days

    19/02/2024 Duração: 32min

    “First days” are a rare thing indeed! We welcomed Ian McConnell and family to the Fabric community for their first Sunday with us and heard from Ian about who he is, what excites him and a little about what to expect from his "default posture." 

  • Help Never Runs Out

    13/02/2024 Duração: 37min

    Like our breath, help becomes scarce when we stop letting it flow freely in and out. Wouldn’t it be great if the healthy giving and receiving of help became as instinctive as breathing? 

  • Help Isn't Fair

    05/02/2024 Duração: 29min

    The kind of help that’s really helpful? It’s not fair! In this episode, Chris Lillehei helps us take a good look at how our tendencies to compare and keep score get in the way of giving and receiving the help that is so needed. 

  • Help!

    30/01/2024 Duração: 38min

    What if asking for help is the most honest and important thing you do every day? Right next to offering it? Jesus said “Ask and it will be given...” If it was no big deal, he wouldn’t have gone on about it and we wouldn’t have to talk about it.  In this episode, Melissa Lock kicks off a conversation that helps us dig into what keeps the kind of help we really need from flowing more freely in our lives and world.

  • The Gospel According to Greg | Nothing is Written in Stone

    24/01/2024 Duração: 29min

    A stone with those ironic words carved into it has sat at the front of our gatherings for 17 years because being church isn’t about having the right beliefs or behaviors. It’s about the message that helps us be authentic to ourselves, each other, this world, and the 3rd Strand.  

  • The Gospel According to Greg | God Doesn't Play Games

    15/01/2024 Duração: 32min

    Do you think God is the sort of thing that makes up rules for us to follow? Bored or insecure enough to play games?  This view of God that has crept into "church" is one of the big reasons Greg started Fabric to escape; helping us see the intrinsic unity we're part of.

  • The Gospel According to Greg | Pitcher at the Plate

    09/01/2024 Duração: 36min

    One big piece of Greg’s pitching mound is his suspicion of answers. Responses however, well, Greg nearly always has something to say about anything. So this is a moment of him basically just fielding (or swinging at) your questions! 

  • SANTAFLIX | Noelle

    04/12/2023 Duração: 38min

    Santa is Christmas to Noelle Kringle and everyone at the North Pole. When her brother reluctantly inherits the hat, Noelle does everything in her power to make it fit. Join Melissa Lock as she helps us each learn from Noelle to find our "twinkle."

  • SANTAFLIX | The Santa Clause

    28/11/2023 Duração: 31min

    This 1994 Christmas classic isn’t only funny and heartwarming, it carries more of what Christmas is meant to bring than Santa could ever fit down a chimney!

  • It’s Hard Not To Practice

    20/11/2023 Duração: 34min

    We're each practicing all sorts of things all the time already. based on how intentional it is, you might call it a skill or a rut.  "Spiritual" practices aren’t any harder than what you're doing already, but rather shape and use what you are doing already. 

  • It’s Hard Not To Wonder

    13/11/2023 Duração: 37min

    You may wonder if that is a true assertion or not, but that just proves the point. There is nothing so certain that you don’t wonder about it. People who don’t like your wondering call it doubt, but it’s all the same. It’s the crack in the walls of certainty, the possibility that there is more to whatever it is. The bigger the question the harder it is to make a formula work, and what could be bigger than your spirituality. Let’s face it, it’s hard not to wonder. I wonder why?

  • It’s Hard Not To Pray

    06/11/2023 Duração: 36min

    Prayer is your inner self speaking, shouting, and crying out beyond yourself. It’s hard not to do that. You know what else is hard not to do? Worry. In this episode, Greg Meyer helps us redirect some time from worry toward prayer.   Find the podcast outline here!

  • It’s Hard Not To Connect

    31/10/2023 Duração: 34min

    If you aren’t marooned on a desert island (in which case you aren’t reading this) you connect with other things and people constantly. The question is what you do with those connections. It may feel easier to eliminate the connections to people unlike you, but what is really hard is the endless effort of keeping those people out of your world. Your spirituality is about being whole, those people make you whole, and you are good at what’s good for you. It’s hard not to connect.

  • It’s Hard Not To Grow

    24/10/2023 Duração: 37min

    The question isn’t whether you are growing or not, but how you are growing? You are adding new information, experiences, and people to your life every day.  Spiritual growth isn’t something you do instead of other kinds, but through them. 

  • Stuff That Works | Boxes

    17/10/2023 Duração: 37min

    Whether you believe in God, don’t, or aren’t sure, you have a container you keep God in, a "God Box." Its walls are made of words, images, experiences, assumptions, and convictions. Some you are aware of, others you aren’t.  It’s time to take a good look at yours and start renovating...expanding...upgrading!

  • Stuff That Works | Mirrors

    09/10/2023 Duração: 34min

    Do you look at others the same way as you look at yourself? Probably not. We work with an uneven playing field that gives us a distorted view of ourselves and others, and that’s a problem. To be the person you can be for a world that needs you, you need to see yourself and others for who they really are