Fabric Podcast
Welcome to the Fabric podcast! Fabric is a thoughtful, progressive experiment in being church, based in South Minneapolis. We love hosting space where curiosity, connection, and inclusive belonging have space to stretch out and get comfy. Take the time you need to explore what we’re about, and when you’re ready, connect however feels best. The conversation is always fresh! Fabric is church, for the rest of us. #FabricMpls
Welcome to the Fabric podcast! Fabric is a thoughtful, progressive experiment in being church, based in South Minneapolis. We love hosting space where curiosity, connection, and inclusive belonging have space to stretch out and get comfy. Take the time you need to explore what we’re about, and when you’re ready, connect however feels best. The conversation is always fresh! Fabric is church, for the rest of us. #FabricMpls
Episodes

Saturday Oct 24, 2020
Citizen! What a Citizen Can Do
Saturday Oct 24, 2020
Saturday Oct 24, 2020
Citizens can create the future for ourselves, our children, and our children’s children. It's what we are always doing, whether we know it or not. And if we don’t take our citizenship seriously, no one may want the future we leave them with. Apathy, discouragement, and hopelessness are rampant in younger generations and they have seen little to make them feel differently. It’s time to change that, fellow citizens. Let’s listen deeply and act. This is about thought and action for November 3 and beyond.
EPISODE PAGE | VOTE PAGE | MPR STORY | ERIC LIU TED TALK

Friday Oct 16, 2020
Citizen! Why Be a Citizen?
Friday Oct 16, 2020
Friday Oct 16, 2020
Feel like a stranger in your own land? The marginalized have for centuries, and now many with privilege feel it too. Is citizenship a game where we pretend we get along, or is it what we've missed long enough to bring us to this place? With an election three weeks away, we're at a critical juncture of realizing what it means to be a citizen and of acting on it.
EPISODE PAGE | VOTE PAGE

Thursday Oct 08, 2020
Don't Feed the Animals: Certainty
Thursday Oct 08, 2020
Thursday Oct 08, 2020
Who doesn’t want to be sure? Especially about big decisions. But as sure as you may be, isn’t there some twinge of not-sure? Certainty is a tempting goal, but it seldom comes. Yet we act as if we have it a lot. It's an animal on the loose.
EPISODE PAGE | VIDEO

Friday Oct 02, 2020
Don't Feed the Animals: Comparison
Friday Oct 02, 2020
Friday Oct 02, 2020
Like all the animals, comparison has a purpose, but feed it and let it loose and it will eat you for lunch with constant questions like Am I better or worse? Do I have as much? Achieved as much? Life is not about comparison. It’s about…well, what is the alternative?
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Friday Sep 25, 2020
Don't Feed the Animals: Hatred
Friday Sep 25, 2020
Friday Sep 25, 2020
You don't really HATE anything, right? Sure, you use the word once in a while, but you just don’t really like them or it. Maybe, but hatred is a sneaky critter that knows how to put on nice clothes and say the right things so it can grow undercover. Needless to say, it isn’t a good bedfellow with love. It might be good to take a look inside to see what may be crowding love out of your heart.
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Friday Sep 18, 2020
Don't Feed the Animals: Attachment
Friday Sep 18, 2020
Friday Sep 18, 2020
If you love it, why not have it? Depends on what you mean by ‘have.’ If having means relationship, great. If it means possessing, then there's a problem. Attachment is an animal we feed, and its clenched fists squeeze the life out of what we love.
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Friday Sep 11, 2020
Don't Feed the Animals: Why Not Feed the Animals?
Friday Sep 11, 2020
Friday Sep 11, 2020
During times of stress, when the world and life seem heavy, it is important to do what we can to show up with our true selves. Everything else we hope to impact and deal with rides on this. But there is a threat to your true self within you. It is the animals you have been feeding. It’s not just you, it’s all of us. And it isn’t just now, this is a lifetime challenge. And it’s one you can handle. So what are these animals and how do they work?
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Cowbird photos (More on the episode page)

Thursday Sep 03, 2020
To Get to the Other Side: There is Already Here
Thursday Sep 03, 2020
Thursday Sep 03, 2020
Still answering, "busy" to the, "how's it going" question? What if COVID helped us re-member a story of "ENOUGH" in our lives? What if it reminded us to rest? Here Mike Rusert shares about the ancient practice of sabbath, and challenges you to create a practice of your own to rest into presence, joy, gratitude, and even justice.
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