Slow Church

I went to a neat workshop by Chris from Englewood Christian Church in Indianapolis about the Slow Church movement. The Slow Church movement takes its name from the Slow Food movement. The three pillars of Slow Food are Good, Clean, Fair: Food that tastes good and is good for you; food that is free from pesticides, hormones, and other things you'd rather not eat; and food that is grown and produced fairly to everyone in the food chain.

The Slow Church movement is about rejecting the idea of the speedy 1 hour per week worship "fix" and rather letting spirituality spill into your daily life. It's about making decisions by discussion and concensus instead of voting. It's about making costly choices for something better--taking more of your time to make the church a better place for you and God and others. It's about reimagining the church as a dinnertime conversation.

Here's an article about some Episcopal slow churches.