Church For Our Common Home

Worship Sundays at 4 p.m. PST Lenten program exploring Teresa of Avila the first woman Doctor of the Catholic church, religious reformer and teacher of Christian mysticism. We will explore how our ideas about God and prayer are changing during this historic time?

“12 Step program for an Ecologic Civilization” Church For Our Common Home is God centered and guided and dedicated to Mother Earth.  We work for an Ecologic Civilization with our 12-step program and we;

1. Share the truth that the current 6th extinction of life on Earth, the only one created by humans, is an invitation for transformation as a human species.

2. Share the history and human habits of dominant over relationships and commit to relationships of collaboration, partnership and co-creativity.

3.Make amends for our alienation and abuse of the natural world and our idolatry of scientism and rationalism using transdisciplinary reconnections of religion, art, psychology, ecology,  etc.

4. Explore eco-feminist and process theology, celebrating God and Goddess language, symbols and relationships.

5. Study the teachings of Jesus and Mary Magdalene and their Church of Love highlighting the radical teachings and the way of doing unto the least of these, love of enemies and service to God not money, with newly found gnostic scriptures and the world’s ancient wisdom traditions.

6. Offer diverse spiritual practices to develop loving relationships with the natural world, Mother Earth and all creation.

7. Honor the invisible realms of dreams, prayer, intuition, parapsychology and imagination.

8. Celebrate the visual and performing arts, ritual making, beauty and creativity as divine spiritual practice.

9. Celebrate intergenerational community by intentionally including and honoring the very young and old human and non-humans.

10. Encourage consciousness raising with integration of body, sexuality, mind, spirit, feelings, intuition and imagination.

11. Work for social justice locally and globally in partnership with other organizations

12.  Experiment with nontraditional church in order to create relevant, spirit filled and loving community.

Confessions, the last book written by John Cobb, includes a concluding chapter and an appendix with Guidelines for Weekly Earth Crisis Support Groups and Potluck Parties by Bonnie Tarwater. The book is available on Amazon.
Links to the audio are provided above. Earth Crisis Support Groups and Potluck Parties forming “Don’t think a small group of people cannot change the world. It is the only thing that ever has.” —Margaret Mead Join us every Sunday, 5–7 p.m. PT, in Dallas, Oregon
Earth Crisis Support Groups and Potluck Parties have begun in Oregon and New York, and we hope they will spread around the world. Our common aim is to create small communities of radical love—to share the truth about the worst existential threat currently facing the human family and our common home, Mother Earth, in her 4.5 billion years of life. Small groups commit to sharing their feelings, telling the truth, eating together, and co-creating creative responses to this historic time. Together, we face what is too painful to hold alone. Contact: Rev. Bonnie Tarwater — (858) 248-5123, revtarwater@yahoo.com

You are invited to an Oregon ORganizational meeting for immigrants, Liam and the least of these

The photo above is of Liam Conejo Ramos, a vulnerable 5 year old child who is now in a Texas concentration camp. The Columbia Heights Public Schools Superintendent Zena Stenvik in Minneapolis told reporters last Wednesday that officers told him to knock on the door to his home to see if other people were inside, “essentially using a 5-year-old as bait,” she said. Conejo means rabbit in Spanish. May this image of Liam and his blue bunny hat standing in the freezing cold make its way into your heart of compassion. In the name of human decency and for the sake of all God's children may we join in peaceful organization to offer the way of peace, love of immigrants and care for all children and the least of these.

Dear Friends of Church for Our Common Home,  

 This past week, I joined almost 200 clergy from every corner of Oregon— Rabbis and Reverends, Buddhists and Muslims, Monks and Ministers— to respond to escalating ICE activity and violence in the wake of the killing of Renee Nicole Good a mother of three and Alex Jeffrey Pretti an intensive care nurse in Minneapolis, over 30 recent deaths in detention centers and the shooting of two of our neighbors in Portland. 

Convened by Together Lab, we learned more about the lay of the land in Oregon, strategies to meet this moment, and sent messages of love and care to our siblings in Minnesota. While each of our congregational contexts are different, it’s clear that we must come together— neighbor to neighbor— to faithfully take action. 

Alongside clergy colleagues across the state, we’re expanding the circle and inviting our congregations, key leaders, and friends to join us on Thursday, February 12th from 6-7:15pm on zoom for a multifaith statewide convening for faith communities. I hope you can come.

Please register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/BxsqeHLBSKu5kxxjEpSBFw

Together, we will: 

• Understand the increased ICE activity in Oregon, including where and how they’re operating

• Know where to plug into faithful organizing strategies across the state, including neighborhood-based, legislative, and upcoming mass mobilizations

• Take meaningful action while on the call to flex our collective muscles. 

The call is being supported by Together Lab, PIRC (who run the statewide hotline you call when you suspect or see ICE), and statewide coalitions Oregon for All and Protect Oregon. 

Please join Church for Our Common Home in prayer. Dear God, We pray for those who were murdered in Minnesota. We pray for the children like 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father taken to an ICE concentration camp in Texas. We stand in solidarity with the courageous leaders like Nekima Levy Armstrong, a civil rights attorney who has been arrested as well as dozens of clergy outside the airport. Our hearts are with all those living in fear. Amen

 Church for Our Common Home invites you to join us in action and contemplation. Please contact me with questions and/or come visit our retreat center, Interfaith Secret Prayer Garden, biodynamic farm and counseling center or share this email and invite a friend. We are an untraditional church and we worship with the animals in the barn, (weather permitting) and are teaching Christian mysticism. We are dedicated to care for Mother Earth, the Divine Feminine, Loving Community and the Arts.