Crowded Table 3.0:
One Table, Many Plates
Two years ago, we launched our first Crowded Table season, centering the practice and ritual of communion: a crowded table shared shared across time and space, and history. Last year, we shared the stories of the people who have gathered around this table before us, ancestors of faith, like Sojourner Truth and John Brown, Dorothy Day and the Catholic Workers Movement, anti-war movements, and Civil Rights activists, whose faith spurred them toward justice and making sure there was room enough at the the table for everyone.
This season, we will talk about what it means for us to share this table with a community that is made up of so many different experiences, perspectives, and journies: a table where conflict may happen. One of the markers of white supremacy is a fear of conflict, with many of us shaped by that culture avoiding, dodging, and "making nice" so as not to disturb the peace. But what kind of community does that create? How does a community like that grow and learn from each other? How can we both hold to the values that make us who we are, while also living space that we will not agree on everything 100% of the time?
So every week, we will be centering a different story of conflict and a tool that it migh offer us around how to handle conflict well within a community --- what tools does it give us, from boundary setting and expection to self-differentiating to identifying when you are unsafe vs. when you are uncomfortable --- and how can we bring those tools to the conflict that exist around our crowded table.
This season, we will talk about what it means for us to share this table with a community that is made up of so many different experiences, perspectives, and journies: a table where conflict may happen. One of the markers of white supremacy is a fear of conflict, with many of us shaped by that culture avoiding, dodging, and "making nice" so as not to disturb the peace. But what kind of community does that create? How does a community like that grow and learn from each other? How can we both hold to the values that make us who we are, while also living space that we will not agree on everything 100% of the time?
So every week, we will be centering a different story of conflict and a tool that it migh offer us around how to handle conflict well within a community --- what tools does it give us, from boundary setting and expection to self-differentiating to identifying when you are unsafe vs. when you are uncomfortable --- and how can we bring those tools to the conflict that exist around our crowded table.
Fall Gathering Schedule
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Oct. 5th | 10 am- Gathering @ Chapel Theater - 4107 SE Harrison Street, Milwaukie, Oregon 97222
Oct. 12th | 10 am- Gathering @ Chapel Theater - 4107 SE Harrison Street, Milwaukie, Oregon 97222 Oct. 19th | 10 am- Gathering @ Chapel Theater - 4107 SE Harrison Street, Milwaukie, Oregon 97222 Oct. 26th | Sabbath Sunday- No Gathering Nov. 2nd | 10 am- Gathering @ Chapel Theater - 4107 SE Harrison Street, Milwaukie, Oregon 97222 Nov. 9th | 10 am- Gathering @ Chapel Theater - 4107 SE Harrison Street, Milwaukie, Oregon 97222 Nov. 16th | 10 am- Gathering @ Chapel Theater - 4107 SE Harrison Street, Milwaukie, Oregon 97222 Nov. 23rd | Sabbath Sunday- No Gathering |