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Update

Hey all! Shay here. Just wanted to give folks a bit of an update on what’s going on with House of the Transfiguration. As some of you have heard Enzi has decided to take a step back from the community … Continue reading

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Easter Reflection: Shay

this is the reflection that Shay offered on Easter… When I first left the church I grew up in, a fundamentalist evangelical church, one of the first doctrines I rejected was the idea that God demanded that Jesus be crucified … Continue reading

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Easter Reflection: Enzi

this is the reflection Enzi offered on Easter… this week has been a week full of anxiety and anticipation. i spent hours processing and distinguishing between guilt and shame. last week when someone placed their palms out toward me and … Continue reading

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Reflection on the Cleansing of the Temple

This is the reflection Shay shared on Sunday March 11, 2012 at the Gathering: The temple cleansing story is one that is well known and often depicted in art: Jesus brandishing a whip and flipping over tables. It’s a rather … Continue reading

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Reflection on the Transfiguration

This is the reflection that Enzi gave at our gathering on February 26: the Transfiguration is certainly a story that I can look at and recognize as part of my own journey. trans·fig·u·ra·tion/ˌtransfigyəˈrāSHən/ Noun: A complete change of form or … Continue reading

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Lenten Reflection

This is the reflection Shay offered at the gathering yesterday. It’s based on Luke chapter 4. It’s a short reflection as our services are discussion based.  I love the progression of this passage: The full of the Spirit experience of being … Continue reading

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Opening and Closing December 4, 2011

Opening Words—December 4, 2011—House of the Transfiguration A response to reading Acts of the Apostles, chapters 1 – 7 Alternating lines could be spoken by first one and then many, or rotate among the group. We passed a notebook around … Continue reading

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First Meeting

We had our first meeting last Sunday night. We talked about the things we were missing from our spiritual communities and what we most needed right now. Some shared that they wanted a place to approach Scripture as their whole … Continue reading

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the ultimate dream

A friend asked me today how I envisioned the structure of House of the Transfiguration. I don’t have a ton of thoughts about structure other than to say I definitely don’t want anything that is top down. But then I … Continue reading

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Protest Chaplains at Occupy MN

I will be at the OccupyMN protests today. I am hoping that we can start a protest chaplains group here in MN. For more information about what that might look like, check out the blog of the initial group in … Continue reading

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