Lectures | CSNorcal.org https://csnorcal.org Supporting Christian Science in Northern California Tue, 19 Nov 2013 04:13:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 45373980 Learning about Church at Burning Man https://csnorcal.org/2013/11/05/learning-about-church-at-burning-man/ https://csnorcal.org/2013/11/05/learning-about-church-at-burning-man/#respond Wed, 06 Nov 2013 06:11:41 +0000 http://csnorcal.org/?p=750 Several members of the Church Alive community participated in this year’s Burning Man event in Nevada over Labor Day. Anna Lisa Kronman writes up a beautiful post about her experience of learning about a deeper meaning of “church”. She writes: A unique element of Burning Man is its gift-based, rather than consumer-based economy…. Everyone that […]

The post Learning about Church at Burning Man first appeared on CSNorcal.org.]]> Several members of the Church Alive community participated in this year’s Burning Man event in Nevada over Labor Day. Anna Lisa Kronman writes up a beautiful post about her experience of learning about a deeper meaning of “church”. She writes:

Burning Man Foot WashingA unique element of Burning Man is its gift-based, rather than consumer-based economy….
Everyone that comes is expected to give something.  Also part of this culture: extraordinary creativity, art, loud music, a markedly friendly and open/permissive atmosphere, and whimsical clothing (or sometimes none.)

A group of people who love Christian Science felt there was a good reason to be a presence in this city.  We came to wash feet.

We hadn’t specifically set out to “do church” there at Burning Man.  We had planned to lovingly embrace that city of lively seekers by actively seeing their spiritual worthiness as we washed dust from their feet.  What a surprise that in doing so, we discovered we were in the middle of church!

Read her whole post here: http://annalisakronmancs.sharethepractice.org/2013/10/22/surprise-church-at-burning-man/

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