In the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
In the name of goodness and love and broken community.
In the name of meaning and feeling and I hope you don’t screw me…
In the name of darkness and light and ungraspable twilight
In the name of mealtimes and sharing and caring by firelight
In the name of action and peace and human redemption
In the name of eating and drinking and table confession
In the name of sadness, regret, and holy obsession,
The holy name of anger, the spirit of aggression
In the name of forgive and forget and I hope I get over this
In the name of father and son and the holy spirit
In the name of beauty and beaten and broken down daily.
In the name of seeing our creeds and believing in maybe,
We gather here, a table of strangers, to speak of our hopeland and talk of our danger…
To make sense of our thinking, to authenticate lives
To humanize feeling and stop telling lies
In the name of philosophy, theology, and who gives a damn?
In the name of employment and study and finding new family
In the name of our passion our loving and indecent obsessions
In the name of prayer and of worship and demon possession
In the name of solitude and quiet and holy reflection
In the name of the lost and the lonely and the without direction
In the name of efficiency, stupidity, and the wholly ineffectual
In the name of the straight, the queer, and the sometimes bisexual
In the name of Mary and Jesus and the mostly silent Joseph.
In the name of speaking to ourselves, saying, “this is more than I can cope with”
In the name of touch-up and break-up and break-down and weeping
In the name of therapy and Prozac and full-hearted breathing
In the name of sadness and madness and years since I’ve smiled
In the name of the unknown the alien and the holy in exile
In the name of goodness and kindness and intentionality
In the name of harbor and shelter and family.
In the name from Peter Rollins on Vimeo.
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