Rock Stars
Monkfish Abbey is on the FRONT PAGE of the Seattle Post Intelligencer today. Check it!
The best part about doing this article was meeting the writer, Athima. She was so great to talk to. She’s very curious and has a keen sense of how things interconnect in her community. I really enjoyed spending time with her, learning about how she process a story. Thanks Athima!
Thanks too to Mike Urban, PI Photographer. The guy works the night shift and is used to spending his nights shooting basketball stars. I’m sure our group was considerably less thrilling. It was kind of him to spend so much time shooting our little world.
The reaction of various people this morning has been fun. Our neighbor Bob, and Christine from my writer’s group both emailed me before dawn to tell me we were on the front page. My fellow PTA member, Shawn had this reaction:
“The f#*king front page?!?! They have nothing better to do then run a story about a bunch of church ladies sitting around getting drunk? Look at it! It’s just you and f*&ing Nirvana! What the f&#k?!?!”
Leave it to Shawn to know how to celebrate with me! 
Anyway, it’s fun to see our little tribe in print!
Hey, found you through the article in today’s P-I. Your little group is quite admirable! I’m a member of a local (Seattle) Gnostic Christian congregation, and we’ve come to many of the same conclusions.
Out of curiousity, do you have any relationship to/with the home-church movement?
~Jeremy Puma (fellow Wallingford resident)
Jeremy,
I guess we are somewhat like a home church, seeing as we meet in a home. The home church movement is pretty into meeting in homes as a return to the “real” or “original” way to do church. It’s an important philosophical choice for them.
For us it was just a matter of convienence. We had, and still have, the option of meeting in a church building, but it just doesn’t feel right to us. We honor other group’s choices to be building oriented, because you can do stuff with a building that you can’t do in a home. But right now, meeting in a home lets us keep things simple, and give us more time to spend with our families, friends, and neighbors. Personally, as the host, it gives me more time to be active as a community volunteer, which I was unable to do as a traditional pastor.
What it really boils down to is, we just like it better.
Thanks for reading!
R
Rachelle, I seriously doubt you remember me, but I knew you and Paul once (and we had several friends in common) when I was a freshman and sophomore at SPU back in 1991-92. Small world. I read the Seattle Times article with curiosity and was surprised to come across your name.
Hey, I came by way of Jeremy’s site and that article also. It sounds really cool what you guys are doing. Nice to hear people with similar mindsets exploring the same questions. Looking forward to following your blog more regularly.
Rachelle,
You look beautiful in the picture of you serving communion!!!
Jen
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So cool! I’m rejoicing with you.
Deegy and I were talking a couple of weeks ago about doing a roadtrip down to Seattle (from Van). Would you guys be open to having some Canadian visitors on a Thurs. nt?
Of course, Lisa! Come on down.
Rachelle!
How freakin cool are you!!
Does this wreck everything and force you to disband?
Just kidding!
Congrats. Let this help you remember you’re still living the life of Jesus in Seattle in an innovative, useful, and tangible way!
Rob
rock on rachelle and monkfish!
twas good to see you last week.
kellybean
great article, well written, great quotes, great ideas, fabulous, feeling proud and I’m not sure why!
lynette (a general lurker and not usually a comment-er)
very cool, great to read about it all in the “fine print”
The article is now part of the material we’re gathering for our congregational visioning process, Rachelle. Monkfish has legs…
thanks peter!