Trinitas hosts Alternative Worship Installation in Atlanta
April 27, 2007
My friend Jake Myers is planting a church in Little 5 Points (a community in Atlanta) and the church community is called Trinitas Church. He and I were co-conspirators in creating, .bE: What do I love when I love my God?, an alternative worship installation. Unlike other .bE worship gatherings I’ve led before, this one was more of a worship installation than a worship service. Our gracious host was Grandma Lukes in Little 5 Points, which allowed us to have an amazing venue. We were able to use the rear portion of the cafe for our worship space, and the front served as a great space to have refreshments, fellowship and debriefing.
Jake was the mastermind behind the text/content and I helped create the design and aesthetics. The worship installation was based around the question, “What do I love when I love my God?” Worshipers were guided through thinking about their questions of God, self, Other(s) and the world. The content was pretty text-heavy, but I think it worked; it was heavily influenced by Augustine, Meister Eckhart, Jack Caputo, Richard Kearney, Kierkegaard, Ricoeur, Derrida, Levinas and Rashi. Jake and I both want this to be an open-source venture, so if you’d like to check out the text for each of the stations, you can download the Word document here.
I posted photos on Flickr here and if you want to see more photos from previous alt.worship gatherings I’ve helped facilitate, go here.
Tags: alt.worship, Alternative-Worship, Atlanta, Little-Five-Points, Worship-Installation
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Adam Walker Cleaveland: I am a 28 year old 
April 27th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
nice bro - i definitely recognized the Augustinian theme right off the bat. LOVE the space and the way you used it. thanks for sharing the info about the stations. i’m trying to gain some momentum to do something along these lines out here in CA. bummed i didn’t get to work on this one with you, but at least i got to the last couple years :) nice job.
April 27th, 2007 at 10:35 pm
Beautiful picture!!