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House of Mercy on the Road |
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House of Mercy on the Road
Debbie Blue, Russell Rathbun and Linda Buturian will be in Chicago at Wicker Park Grace Wed. April 16 to read from their books and talk about the Church they started with their friends way back at the dawn of the Emergent/emergence/emerging movement. Come join the conversation--how does a worshiping community committed to radical grace and liturgical eclecticism sustain itself over time, or what where ever else it may go.
7-9pm, Wed, April 16 @ Wicker Park Grace, 1741 N. Western Ave, Chicago, Up/rooted.city gathering.
House of Mercy was named, “The Best Church for Non-church Goers,” by the Minneapolis City Pages and is included in the Twin Cities Rock Atlas for its significant contribution the Minnesota music scene.
Debbie Blue, House of Mercy Preacher, is a contributor to the Christian Century and author of Sensual Orthodoxy and From Stone to Living Word (just released from Brazos).
"Debbie Blue is a one-woman revolt against the heart-smothering junta that is contemporary, neo-puritanical pulpit-craft." David James Duncan, author of The Brother's K,
Russell Rathbun, House of Mercy preacher and author of the upcoming Midrash on the Juanitos (Cathedral Hill Press, Aug. 2008) and Post-Rapture Radio (just released in paper from Jossey-Bass).
 “What a ride [Post-Rapture Radio] is. It's like the Being John Malkovich of evangelical Christianity.” Jana Riess, Publishers Weekly.
Linda Buturian, House of Mercy community member, teaches writing and literature at the University of Minnesota. Her writing has appeared in Shouts and Whispers, (Eerdmans 2006), OE Journal, and the Utne Reader. Cathedral Hill Press has just published World Gone Beautiful, a memoir of her experience living in intentional community.
In World Gone Beautiful, Linda Buturian introduces us to the contemporary ascesis of intentional living, of deliberate faith, and of the choice to become a member of the Body, truly. She reminds me that, as the fathers say, we are all called to martyrdom; and she reminds me that, so long as we're doing it, we should seek to do it beautifully.
—Scott Cairns, Short Trip to the Edge and Compass of Affection
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