Fabric Podcast

Living Room: Creating a Spacious Place

Living room is an invisible space we create for ourselves and others, but it is also physical space. In our enthusiasm for erecting structures and roads we sometimes leave little living room. The Garden of Eden may not be our goal, but physical space that doesn’t crowd us out would be nice. Sara Joy Proppe of the Proximity Project (proximityprojectinc.com) has made a life of creating space for people and joined us in this conversation. Other voices in this episode are Scott Schluter who created a welcoming threshold to his property and Kris Meyer who works for the Freshwater Society and educated us about a rain garden project coming to Field Community School where we gather on Sundays.
Find the outline 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.
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Living Room: Safe Space 2

As people start claiming living space, others get nervous. We see it as women seek their way into corner offices. Our non-white neighbors expect their fair place in the world, not to be held prisoner of stereotype and suspicion. People are threatened as their LGBTQ neighbors come out of the closet and head to the living room. We all participate in systems that keep space safe for us at the expense of others. Let's be part of changing the systems.
Find the outline 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.
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Living Room: Safe Space

One big reason you need to find your own living room is to help others find theirs. When we focus on protecting rather than creating space others get pushed out with nowhere to go. This isn’t just figurative, folks. People who haven’t had a seat at the tables of power are cut off from the stuff of life. If God is about anything, it’s about including, loving, making space for everyone. And you don’t have to lose your space to give it to others. In fact, you will only truly find yours when you share it.
In this episode, Chris Lillehei shares his thoughts, stories, and experience to help us make living room for others.
Find the outline 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.
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Living Room: Always On

There are fewer and fewer places you can’t be reached. Fewer and fewer experiences, events, happenings not being reported to the world via social media. And that’s just because of your smartphone! There is also your job, school, friends and family who all expect they can reach you whenever, wherever. Psychologists and therapists are telling us this inescapable availability is creating the most anxious generations ever. Let’s talk about your living room.
Find the outline 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.
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Practices to Make Living Room

"Lent" has been used as a tool for beating up on ourselves, but is there something helpful to glean from practices of self-denial, discipline, and space-making? Greg, Chris, and Melissa dig in to the ways that they're using this season to build practices, capacity and focus. 

Living Room: Welcome to Your Living Room

Why be welcomed to your own living room? Maybe because you haven’t found it yet. Seriously, something about the world these days gets us so wrapped up in great stuff that our room to live is squeezed out. So much so that Greg Meyer is willing to start this conversation rolled in in a box. It's so easy for life to become all about keeping up, packing it in, making the most of, and not being left out. What gives way for all that to happen? You!
Find the outline 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.
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A Morning with Terry Esau

Terry, a longtime friend of Fabric, has been turning people's thinking upside down his whole life. His books “Blue Collar God / White Collar God” and “Surprise Me, God” did it. He then turned generosity on its head starting Free Bikes 4 Kidz in 8 cities giving away 5-6000 bikes a year. Just this month Terry stood us all on our heads publishing “Jesus asks America to kindly ‘cease & desist’ in using his name” in City Pages. In this episode, we get to relish the challenge and do a little paradigm adjustment with stories and wisdom from Terry Esau.
Find 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.
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Small "t" truth: Alive - The Cost of small “t” truth

There is no doubt that living in a small “t” truth world is harder. Nothing is ever settled once and for all. We have to keep thinking and considering how what we believe applies right now. But for all that trouble it can also breathe grace into unforgiving rules, return suppleness to rigid systems and open space in too tight to fit categories. This episode asks how better questions, curiosity and movement can make the shift and bring life.
Find the outline 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!