Long Story Short is a series of conversations and snapshot clips of defining moments (struggle, growth, healing, discernment, direction, or purpose) shaping people's lives and faith. We all experience and love God in a diversity of beautiful ways. Everyone’s faith is enriched when we can trust our unique path and experiences of God while recognizing the truth and beauty of another’s.

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Long Story Short is a series of conversations and snapshot clips of defining moments (struggle, growth, healing, discernment, direction, or purpose) shaping people's lives and faith. We all experience and love God in a diversity of beautiful ways. Everyone’s faith is enriched when we can trust our unique path and experiences of God while recognizing the truth and beauty of another’s.

Long Story Short is a series of conversations and snapshot clips of defining moments (struggle, growth, healing, discernment, direction, or purpose) shaping people's lives and faith. We all experience and love God in a diversity of beautiful ways. Everyone’s faith is enriched when we can trust our unique path and experiences of God while recognizing the truth and beauty of another’s.

Long Story Short is a series of conversations and snapshot clips of defining moments (struggle, growth, healing, discernment, direction, or purpose) shaping people's lives and faith. We all experience and love God in a diversity of beautiful ways. Everyone’s faith is enriched when we can trust our unique path and experiences of God while recognizing the truth and beauty of another’s.

Sarah Huffman is the Healing Arts Coordinator at Monthaven Arts and Cultural Center.

She is an expressive therapist and clinical chaplain who has worked in the environments of residential addiction treatment, inpatient psychiatric treatment, medical hospitalization, and hospice care. Sarah strongly believes that creativity helps the process of mental, emotional, and spiritual recovery.

Long Story Short is a series of conversations and snapshot clips of defining moments (struggle, growth, healing, discernment, direction, or purpose) shaping people's lives and faith. We all experience and love God in a diversity of beautiful ways. Everyone’s faith is enriched when we can trust our unique path and experiences of God while recognizing the truth and beauty of another’s.

What is a church? It is a community of people held together not by power but by love. Simply put, any notion of a church must be a fully practical church that is concerned about getting the job of love done—and done better and better.

A church is made up of genuinely good people who are, from the deepest levels of their understanding and motivation, committed to promoting the good of everyone.

What is a church? Jarrod Morris-How can you talk about the beauty of the church without talking about the women of the church? For Mother's Day, Jarrod did just that, talked to us about the role of women in the church.

What is a church? The book of Acts is the very first story of the church. What is the big story of these texts and how do they still matter to us in the modern world?

SLIDES GEORGE READ IN OUR GATHERING

“When we claim and constantly reclaim the truth of being the chosen ones, we soon discover within ourselves a deep desire to reveal to others their own chosen-ness. Instead of making us feel that we are better, more precious or valuable than others, our awareness of being chosen opens our eyes to the chosen-ness of others. That is the great joy of being chosen: the discovery that others are chosen as well. There is a place for everyone – a unique, special place. Once we deeply trust that we ourselves are precious in God’s eyes, we are able to recognize the preciousness of others and their unique places in God’s heart.”

-Henri Nouwen, Life of the Beloved

What is a church? The book of Acts is the very first story of the church. What is the big story of these texts and how do they still matter to us in the modern world?

SLIDES GEORGE READ IN OUR GATHERING

The great gift of Christianity is to be united while remaining oneself. - Teilhard De Chardin

The Eucharist invites us to gather as family.

Nothing is an island, not even a molecule or an atom. Everything is meant to be in relationship. The Eucharist honors that. The Eucharist is meant to form us into one body in a way that takes us beyond the differences of personality, ideology, theology, gender, ethnicity, history, social status, preoccupation, privatized agenda, and jealousy. Often, it alone has the power to do this. God gives us something we couldn’t give to ourselves: a common heart and spirit. The Eucharist is, therefore, both the sacrament that celebrates unity and the sacrament that cleanses us for it.  

—Ronald Rolheiser, Our One Great Act of Fidelity