Solas has been great. We've had people there all through the event and I was there yesterday. I'm even more scared of the church than I was because it seems very, very small. I think I knew every second or third person there. Surely it's not that bad... yet! Or is a festival that speaks into social justice, that offers broad progressive thinking as much as any other thinking just not as popular to the mainline church?
It was real gospel stuff going on, tangling with nuclear power and art, alternative worship streams and controversial bishops all of which have heaps of love to offer to the people on the edge of the church and yesterday again I noticed how many of them there were.
Music was broad too, real music that you didn't need to clap your hands to but came from stories and experiences of people as much as the story and experience of the world. It's great when the church gets to be the church proper without the sunday morning snash but the real stuff of what we are called to be involved in, from ecology to Palestine, from social justice to art and faith.
Certainly it inspired enough of us to find ourselves sitting at a table last night in North Star, one of the venues, with a paper table cloth that we covered in pen drawings and mind maps with ideas for our own congregation to bring passion and enthusiasm again into it's life. So when you can get inspired and feel the need to think creatively again not in terms of an end product but in terms of a process of being, then you've found where the life is. Life brings life and enthusiasm brings enthusiasm, and Solas provided enough of that for us to get on the journey again.
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