Fabric Podcast

The Gift Exchange: Give Up Your List, Receive…

What's on your list? It's everyone doing and being what suits you best. Sure, you don’t look at it that way. You just think people doing what you like is doing what’s right. Guess again. What if your list of what you want wasn’t getting what you want, but keeping you from getting it? Would you give it up then? And if you did, what do you think you’d get in return? In this episode, Greg Meyer asks us to consider (and try) that very thing.
Find related resources, including the outline for this message, on our website. Also watch for our regular "scraps" podcasts where we talk through other ideas and parts of the message that ended up on the cutting room floor.
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The Gift Exchange: Give Up Naming, Receive...

We spend a lot of attention, time and smarts naming things. Naming the disease and the antidote; naming the poisonous versus the edibles; the ski runs green to black diamond. It is natural, human and helpful! But can we get too good at naming? What happens when we figure it all out, know how it is, sum it all up or boil it all down? In this episode, Melissa Lock asks us what we might receive if we gave up that kind of naming.
Find related resources on our website. Also watch for our regular "scraps" podcasts where we talk through other ideas and parts of the message that ended up on the cutting room floor.
You can support Fabric as a community and help to bring messages and experiences like this to more people at https://www.fabricmpls.com/give. Thank you!

Hearing Voices: Hear My Voice, Listen to My Story

What's the value of being known? For some it can be the difference between being valued or harmed. But for any of us? What happens when our stories are known; first by ourselves and then by others? What do we risk and what do we gain? What might others gain? Sharing who you are is powerful and changes lives - yours and others. In this episode we welcome several of our community and friends as they invite us to listen. 
Find related resources on our website. Also watch for our regular "scraps" podcasts where we talk through other ideas and parts of the message that ended up on the cutting room floor.
You can support Fabric as a community and help to bring messages and experiences like this to more people at https://www.fabricmpls.com/give. Thank you!

Hearing Voices: Expanding Your Growth Zone

Every change starts with an idea, a change of heart, a shifted paradigm but unless it informs what we do it remains just an idea. Our focus on ‘Hearing Voices’ is not meant to make us more open-minded, but more open-lived. On Nov 17 we used our collective time, experience, energy and courage to each plan our own ‘What’s Next.’ Since that doesn't translate well to podcast, let this conversation between Greg, Melissa, and Chris fill that void as they dig in to some potential places to stretch your growth zone in this Hearing Voices conversation.

Hearing Voices: The Stories of Our Bodies

Diversity is our strength, not our weakness. But we’ve tried to tame and control it in ways that hurt some of us directly and limit us collectively. In this episode, Joanne Reeck, the Chief Diversity Officer of Augsburg University joins Greg Meyer to tackle the problem and possibility beneath what we can see.
Find related resources on our website. Also watch for our regular "scraps" podcasts where we talk through other ideas and parts of the message that ended up on the cutting room floor.
You can support Fabric as a community and help to bring messages and experiences like this to more people at https://www.fabricmpls.com/give. Thank you!

Hearing Voices: A Different Kind of Listening

In this scraps episode, Melissa, Greg, and Chris reflect on the kind of listening that the part of Fabric that gathered at Field Community School this past week experienced in unaccompanied group singing and in playing the game Story Stitch from Green Card Voices as part of the current conversation, Hearing Voices.

Hearing Voices

The world is not the place you think it is. Your world has been carefully curated to present a certain story that has a lot to do with how life turns out for different people. Whether you’ve been aware of it or not, you have been advantaged or disadvantaged by that story. That isn’t the world Jesus told stories about nor that stands behind the unrealized dream of “All people are created equal.” This first of our six-week odyssey of listening to more stories from more voices; starts with your own.
Here's the link to Clint Smith's TED Talk shared in this message as well as Yehimi Cambrón's story from Green Card Voices. 
Find the outline for this message and related resources at https://www.fabricmpls.com/scraps. Also watch for our regular "scraps" podcasts where we talk through other ideas and parts of the message that ended up on the cutting room floor.
You can support Fabric as a community and help to bring messages and experiences like this to more people at https://www.fabricmpls.com/give. Thank you!

In-Between Conversations: Help Hearing

We've just spent roughly six weeks as a community in conversation around forgiveness. It's probably just what was needed as we prepare to dive into a conversation full of land mines, ruts, and some deep motivation to maintain the status quo. In this scraps podcast, Chris, Greg, and Melissa reflect on how "The F Word" helps prepare us all to have the capacity for Hearing Voices.