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The support we’ve gotten for our Indiegogo to raise money for the new album has been WOONNNDERFULLLLLLL..!!!!! ❤️💚💗💙‼️🎉 . Thanks to all of you who have invested so far in this new music. Over $8,000 in less than 30 days. So amazing. . . We only have two days to go on this campaign, but you can still be a part of this project to create more music for worship that’s about tearing down walls, and inspiring us all to create a more just, peaceful, inclusive and loving world. Hit the Link in profile or just type in: igg.me/at/theMany #allbelonghere #themanyarehere #teardownwalls #inclusive #diversity #lgbtqchristian
Today, on the anniversary of 9/11, we are thinking once again of this powerful poem by the incredible poet Brian Doyle, which he wrote soon after the events that happened 18 years ago on this day. We hope you’ll read the while thing - including a link below in which you can hear Brian reading it. . In it he talks about two people who were seen leaping from the World Trade Center, holding hands. And he writes: “Their hands reaching and joining are the most powerful prayer I can imagine, the most eloquent, the most graceful. It is everything that we are capable of against horror and loss and death. It is what makes me believe that we are not craven fools and charlatans to believe in God, to believe that human beings have greatness and holiness within them like seeds that open only under great fires, to believe that some unimaginable essence of who we are persists past the dissolution of what we were, to believe against such evil hourly evidence that love is why we are here.” . . Love is why we are here. Or as we sing in The Many: We are on this earth to love. That is what we keep reminding ourselves of today. Love is why we are here. Take someone’s hand today and let that be a prayer. . . Here is that link to the full poem: https://youtu.be/2mJ_jkkVRQo
These words from @wordsofworth got us this morning. Yep. #truth #noteasy #repost #allbelonghere #lovechangeseverything
How hard is it to believe love is stronger than the fear and hate and fear sandwiches we carry around and munch on these days? Don’t know about you but for us it’s been so so hard. That’s why this became a song we wrote and are recording for the new album. Because we need this reminder and we need to sing this out and sing it to each other until we can live it. . . If you wanna support us in getting this song and other authentic, justice-focused and inclusive songs for worship into the world you can. Check out our #Indiegogo campaign. Link: igg.me/at/themany . #loveisgreater #lovegreaterthanfear #allbelonghere #recording #progressivechristianity #lgbtqchristian
Background vocals happening in the studio for the last couple nights. All kinds of friends dropped by to lend their beautiful voices to this album. So much goofy and glorious goodness going on. And btw @heydarren has some fabulous new hair thing too. #allbelonghere #themanyarehere #bgv #recordingstudio #newalbum
Fun to run across this photo from @cortney_morgan wearing our #allbelonghere baseball cap. Every day more and more it seems these are words we need to be singing, shouting, wearing...living. Thanks for showing your support for #inclusion and #diversity Cortney and for our music too, of course. Thank you, thank you. #weallbelong #repost
There is enough to go around. This is sometimes...ok, most of the time...so hard to believe, isn’t it? But we want to believe it, way down deep in our anxious and jealous and broken little hearts. But still... so hard. . . That’s why that’s a line that made it into the bridge of one of the new songs we’re recording right now for our next album. A song called “Extravagant Love.” When we’ve performed it live every time people start singing this line together it brings us to tears. There is enough to go around... Breathe that in. . . This bowl was created by a wonderful ceramic artist here in Chicago for the Indiegogo campaign we’ve been running for the new album, btw. And yes, this campaign has also been showing us that there is enough. The support for music that’s authentic and justice-focused and inclusive has been OVERWHELMING. If you’ve been one of our backers so far thank you so much. And if you haven’t seen our Indiegogo page yet, find the link in our profile. #thereisenough #indiegogo #indiegogocampaign #songsforjustice #lgbtqchristian #inclusive #allbelonghere
#repost @becreaturekind . A CreatureKind Statement on the Illegal Burning of the Brazilian Amazon (and how you can help) By Aline Silva This week, the world has reacted in shock as they became aware of a reality that local Brazilians have been dealing with for weeks: the Amazon rainforest is burning because a few rich farmers want Amazonian land to be used for agribusinesses. The Amazon rainforest has been named the lungs of the earth. But the last 18 days have drastically depleted its ability to breathe. According to Brazil’s National Space Institute, the deforestation rate in the rainforest is 88% higher this summer than last summer, and most of us know that the deforestation rate in the Amazon was already astonishingly high. In addition to displacing and endangering hundreds of thousands, almost a million, of Brazil’s indigenous peoples, this illegal burning is killing many non-human animals, greenery, and water flows—called invisible rivers—which are responsible for bringing rain to most of South America. As followers of Jesus, we are charged with caring for and protecting one another and the world’s vulnerable. We share a call to care for the whole earth, to anticipate the peaceable Kingdom of God, to share the peace of Christ with all of God’s beloved creation, and to love our neighbors well. But this year, we learned that we have just twelve years* to reverse the effects of consumerism on our planet. We were told that if we didn’t change our ways, the damage would be irreparable after twelve years. The burning rainforest is a shocking reminder that we have much work to do to peacefully co-exist in a world where all can flourish as creatures of God. Today in many cities throughout the world and, especially Brazil, the people are gathering to demand justice for all. Here is how you can help: ✔️First, remember this is a systemic and political issue. Those in power are not reflecting the interest of the people and of the Amazon. Brazil’s president Bolsonaro has continually said, “it’s simply burning season in the Amazon.”
Sometimes we have to name the stones that we trip over, the stones we throw, the stones we’ve had thrown at us, the stones we build walls with. It’s important to name them and let them go... leave them on the communion table and take away the life-giving bread and cup instead. That’s what we did at @saintpaulschooloftheology this morning. We sang and prayed and cried and remembered hope. #confessions #lament #allbelonghere
Lenora, here, writing this morning from a hotel outside of Kansas City. The band is getting ready to head to Southminster Presbyterian Church in an hour for a couple gatherings with folks there today. And I’ve been thinking about the power of community…about how together we can do so much more than we can do apart. I have to say, I’m an introvert and I’ve possibly also had a few life experiences that have caused me to be a person that has a hard time trusting others to care for me, to take me as I am, to not try to change me…so “apart” is pretty much my default. And needing other people…not always so easy. But I’ve seen the beauty and power of community…what can happen when people come together with a shared sense of purpose and let themselves be seen and known and yeah…loved. That’s what it’s like working with this band, that’s what making music and songwriting is all about, that’s what church can be when we do it the way I believe we were called to do it, it’s also, I believe, how the world gets better, how the world changes. Not always easy… i.e. it rips your heart apart sometimes…but also ultimately beautiful and worth it and GOOD. . . . And on a slightly less cosmic…but also, very important level… I’ve been so grateful for the people who have come around to support the band’s Indiegogo, which we just launched two days ago, grateful for all of you been showing up as a community for us, trying to get more of our music out there in the world. Thank you all for all the “togethering” you’re doing. . . . By the way, if you want to support our Indiegogo (and it would be awesome if you could, but no pressure, of course) check the link in profile. #community #bandlife #songsforjustice #inclusion #indiegogo #indiegogocampaign #newalbum

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