Street Fair Reformation!

This past Saturday Parables took to the streets!  Specifically the Southside Connex Havemeyer Street Festival.

 And we brought with us a large wooden door, a hammer, nails, and Martin Luther's 95 Theses.
 We invited passersby to join in Martin Luther's nearly 500 year old tradition of nailing on a community door the truths and change he wanted the world to know and do.  You can see all the pictures of the beautiful faces holding up their theses and nailing them in here.  Below are the typed up 42 theses of the southside of Williamsburg, Brooklyn.  Every effort has been made to preserve the style and spelling of the original theses.
               

1. Peace, Love, Happiness
2. Helping + Loving
3. Permaculture
4. I love my mom because she is the best mom in the word. <3
5. Save the city and love
6. Happiness!!
7. En memoria de su madre, todo los retratos de mis hijos los puse en la pared con mi martillo, es mi mano derecho en la casa -- Lucy Martinez (In memory of her mother, all the portraits of my children I put on the wall with my hammer, it is my right hand in the home)
8. LOVE SCHOOL
9. Love, Respect, Honor one another! Drop!
10. Community and Better Jobs 4 All
11. ART IN EVERYONE'S LIFE!
12. LOVE, RESPECT, PEACE, UNDERSTANDING
13. Loving Communication
14. Thank You for Speaking Up Courageously!
15. HE LIVES.  KEEP PRAISING HIM
16. I Love my Dad, MOM becouse day or The Best.  Love <3 Christy Mora :)
17. Al esperansa para el que se agara de Dios (Hope for the one who grabs hold of God)
18. Saving Programs For School.
19. ..{~~```<)
20. <3 Ashley Mora
21. Serenity Hope Love One Another
22. I <3 God  <3
23. Ears to Listen
24. W.E.P.A. (We Empower Peoples Art) In God we Trust   -- Miguel
25. Paz Para El Mundo Entero (Peace for the Whole World)
26. LOVE SAVES THE DAY
27. "If we chage within, our outer body will chage also"
28. Dr. Health E. Hound
29. I Love School <3
30. Strengthen Our Community --MORE BLOCK PARTIES!!!!!
31. Calling Planet Earth
32. Lots of Global Love <3
33. Love Peace    Thank You Holy Universe    Tranquillity :)
34. I Love art <3
35. Love is the Key to everything in Life. Just Love everthing and everyone.  "I Love You!"
36. Amal su Besinos (Love your neighbors)
37.  Peace, Love & Joy +
38. LOVE ALL
39. To Get Along As Human Beings!
40. PEACE ON EARTH
41. Respect our PLANET
42. The LORD before anything elseMore theses were collected at our St. Francis Day art show themed around the intersection of environmentalism and spirituality.
43. spread peace no more war
44. stop climate change
45. THE FADING OF CHILD-LIKE WONDER
46. Protecting predators instead of children (+ other survivors)
47. valuing objects over people
48. Society is just unfair!!!
49. We are not separate from "nature"
50. Our police must STOP killing our children!
51. Why all the male god/lord language?
52. Empathy versus Sympathy
53. Calling Planet Earth

 

Happy Easter from Hippolytus of Brooklyn!

Here's a video from the Parables community of 39 New Yorkers proclaiming the Easter resurrection using the words of 3rd Century sermon! Christ is risen indeed!  Alleluia!

Looking for God in the Grossest Places

The season of Lent of is the time between Ash Wednesday and Easter.  It is traditionally a time of spiritual reflection and renewal in preparation for Jesus death and resurrection during Holy Week. Pastor Ben's spiritual practice during Lent this year will be to look for God in the grossest places.  Each day, Ben and a friend from seminary will challenge each other with something really gross (take the phorid fly pictured above).  The other person then has to write a prayer using the gross thing as a metaphor for God.  The goal is to practice seeing the divine in all things.  You can follow along, suggest your own challenges and theological insights, at GrimyGod.Wordpress.com.