Incarnation is a new church that gathers on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
Feb 25, 2010
I miss the patterned regularity of meeting together in the same place for worship every week. And we are working very hard towards that end. Our goal in this transition period has always been to begin meeting weekly as soon as possible. There are several pieces to this. First, we want to find ... Read more
Feb 17, 2010
I once suffered through a church service that involved a five year old kid strumming a plastic guitar and singing “Home on the Range.” And that was the hight point. I was reminded of said event this past Sunday as we labored through our first service at Stand Up NY. Wow, that was ... Read more
Nov 3, 2009
The season of All Saints asks us to re-imagine the breadth of our belonging. It is hard enough to imagine ourselves belonging to a community that stretches around the globe. Harder yet to imagine belonging to a community that includes the living and the dead. Should it so easily escape us that ... Read more
Oct 8, 2009
I have been talking lately with the group at Incarnation about storytelling. The Christian faith, and the good news of Scripture, is a kind of story. And one of the primary tasks of Christian communities is to help one another imagine ourselves within the story of what God has done and continues ... Read more
Aug 26, 2009
So I’ve been thinking about “success” lately and I’m trying to figure out what triggered it. Surely it has something to do with our economy going belly up. It could have been the whole Madoff story. Then again, it could have been Warren Buffet’s line about ... Read more