In the midst of our own communities a Servant Leadership School has emerged to work with all the issues involved in servant leadership. Located in the Adams Morgan area, the School is surrounded by nine of the missions of the church. The tower building is gracious in design, but the streets themselves and the missions are its extended classrooms. The Continue Reading

In his Handbook for Small Mission Groups,(The Potters House, 1658 Columbia Road, N.W. Washington, D. C., 20009), Gordon Cosby describes the nuts and bolts of groups that endeavor to be agents of change in the lives of their members and agents of social change in the world. They might be called compassion groups, which is a name that Michael Lerner Continue Reading

Each of the communities has its own cluster of missions stamped with their own uniqueness, telling stories of struggle, grit and grime, and luminous moments when they were bearers of mercy and grace. Sometimes these missions of the communities, so wondrous to behold, are sorely beset with the problems that we have with ourselves and each other-our small and large Continue Reading

An example of an older, smaller, and more hidden ministry is a Montessori school for very young children conducted in the basement of the first Jubilee building. Nona Beth Landon, a slender young woman with long braided hair and degrees in music and education, is the founder. For fifteen years she and one of the mothers living in a Jubilee Continue Reading

Sacred SpacesArtists have not only placed in these outposts their offerings of sculpture, stained glass windows, paintings and tapestries, they have also taught classes in art, storytelling, poetry, quilting and dance to children and old people, and to the sick and homeless, so that everywhere creativity abounds. The institutions born of the churches are themselves works of art. They, too, Continue Reading

Expressions of Community Flavor While existing under the same umbrella and bound by the same covenant, each community has its own individuality. One cannot visit one of the church communities and know what the others are like. Even the worship services are different, though they may be held in the same place. The Eighth Day Community, which worships on Sunday Continue Reading

Priesthood of Believers A church cannot take seriously the concept of the priesthood of all believers without conceiving of itself as a seminary for the training of the laity for the priesthood. The School of Christian Living had been doing just that through all the years-training its members to be servant leaders. The movement to the New Land could not Continue Reading

From the day The Church of The Saviour came into existence it has been changing and evolving. In the spring of 1976, we found ourselves engaged in the living of a new Easter. Each day had put before our eyes sights to disturb our sleep and inform our days. Paulo Friere, who has been a spiritual guide for so many, Continue Reading

Part 1 Roots of a Call As a teenager Gordon Cosby stood on the street corners of Lynchburg, Virginia, passing out the Gospel of St. John and asking permission to speak with passersby about Jesus Christ, while all the time there grew in him doubts that this was the best way to share his excitement about the faith. A childhood Continue Reading

In 1952, when I was one and thirty and new to Washington, D. C., two friends invited me to visit a class that Gordon Cosby was teaching at The Church of The Saviour. I was fond of these friends and in the debt of their love, so out of respect for what was important to them I went to visit Continue Reading