What is a labyrinth?
Many people often ask what a labyrinth is because they aren’t entirely sure. Labyrinths are geometrical patterns used for walking or tracing, as a tool to assist the consciousness. They…
How to meditate
Meditation is a big part of Labyrinth Progressive Student Ministry. We facilitate a meditation every week in our fall semesters and for some students it’s their first time to try…
Interpretation
Something that Anna and I both share is a love for musicals. I cannot wait till we can be in a live theatre again. Recently, I’ve been reflecting on interpretation…
Coming back
One of my guilty pleasures is survival shows. I love them all! I’d like to think that if I was ever in a survival situation that I would do fairly…
Pentecost Protest: A poem inspired by 1 Corinthians 13
If I speak eloquently with charisma that can persuade my opponents,but do not speak in the Spirit,I am but a talking head full of air. If I have read every…
Gray Women: An Easter homily
The first Easter wasn’t egg hunts and chocolate bunnies and nice suits and dresses. It wasn’t brass quartets and the Hallelujah chorus and lilies. No photos by the flower cross.…
Holy Week & Easter Services
We are so blessed to have six supporting congregations around Austin. Here are all their Holy Week and Easter services, along with our Labyrinth services. Many of them will be…
Church beyond the screen
There are many ways churches have been getting creative with their Holy Week gatherings - that’s part of the privilege of my work is seeing the incredible creative solutions ministers have devised. So knowing our college students were already in front of a screen for class, movie night, student teaching, Bible study, and a hundred other things, I was interested in how we could be the church outside together.
Together across the distance
Labyrinth like most churches has moved into an online space since Spring Break. COVID-19 blew all our plans out of the water. No chapel, no lounge, no dinner. We wondered,…