And, increasingly, people experience the “more, faster, bigger, better” solutions of modern life to be too flat, too empty, too unjust to provide that help. Could healthy spirituality and community meet our needs?
Brown Line Church (named for Chicago’s Northside “L” train) is a community both in Chicago and online (reaching many beyond Chicago). Through Sunday gatherings for prayer & meditation, small group community building, and empowering individuals to contribute to justice and healing in the world, we try to help people connect with a God of love and find deeper, fuller, less self-centered lives — especially people who feel more at home culturally in progressive settings, rather than religious settings.
We embrace diversity in perspectives and religious/cultural backgrounds, we are committed to economic justice and anti-racism work, and we are LGBTQ-inclusive. Our guide in all this is Jesus. Many present “faith in Jesus” as an exclusive thing, over and against other religious or non-religious approaches to life, but our experience has been entirely different…
Join our church in dreaming together this spring about a more profound, more connecting, more sustainable way to address economic suffering and struggle in our country. Vince sets the table for this ongoing project teaching us about the God of Solidarity, who calls us toward the same mindset. (Illustration by Lauren Rolwing for The Southeast Center For Cooperative Development)
Jumping off of our community's discussions and comments over the last couple months, Hayley reflects on our Lenten practice of trying to give up unhelpful and incomplete beliefs.
Discord is an online platform for community. Join Brown Line Church’s Discord server to discuss our Sunday messages, connect with volunteer opportunities, ask for prayer, swap stuff, or just laugh at gifs people share.
Hayley and Vince dig deeper on how a solidarity mindset is distinct from a charity mindset, with a focus on the role and promise of community. (Illustration by Lauren Rolwing for The Southeast Center For Cooperative Development)