Veterans who have attended at least 3 recent dialogues are invited to this special dialogue on a sensitive-yet-vital topic for dialogue: sanctity of life. Thank you for being a part of this tender, courageous conversation which our belief systems often inform so directly.
Join us to connect with other TCL folks in ways we may not have a chance to during TCL dialogues, events or cohort meetings!
Join us for a spotlight dialogue, where we will learn from a guest of honor and base our dialogue around their life experience with faith practice. Keep an eye out for details in our weekly mailchimps!
Join us for a dialogue on the role of navigating uncertainty and how our belief systems and faith traditions informs how we wrestle with just that.
Walk a labyrinth with us in a downtown park followed by dinner out together!
Join us for a storytelling-centered dialogue in which we will offer stories about times when we were transformed in our lives and what brought it about. Was faith a direct contributor, and how was your faith impacted by the experience? Email carrie@thechurchlab.org for more info!
Join us for hangtime with anyone in TCL’s sphere! Location TBA as the date nears. Email carrie@thechurchlab.org for more info!
How does your faith influence the way you engage your online life, and then how does your online life influence your faith? What does the road look like between your online and offline behavior? Join us for this crucial and fascinating exploration from our various perspectives and wisdom. Email carrie@thechurchlab.org for more info.
Join us for this special annual dialogue in which our board of directors join us! We will gather to listen and learn from each other about our journeys with faith and irreconcilable differences. What does it mean for us to love our neighbor when we do not and will not see eye to eye? Please join! Email carrie@thechurchlab.org for more info.
Join us for hangtime with anyone in TCL’s sphere! Location TBA as the date nears. Email carrie@thechurchlab.org for more info!
Join us for a dialogue about our faith and the role of persecution. Persecution can have many faces, as can our responses, as influenced by our faith. What does it look like for you? Email carrie@thechurchlab.org for more info.
Join us for hangtime with anyone in TCL’s sphere! Location TBA as the date nears. Email carrie@thechurchlab.org for more info!
Join us for a dialogue about intervention, whether your faith says God intervenes, or perhaps loved ones or strangers have intervened, in a life-altering manner that would not have occurred had you kept chugging along without them. Email carrie@thechurchlab.org for more info.
At a time in the world where politics is often more divisive than religion, join us to devote a posture of seeking to understand before being understood (as St. Francis of Assisi’s prayer says).
Join us for hangtime with anyone in TCL’s sphere! Location TBA as the date nears. Email carrie@thechurchlab.org for more info!
At a time in the world where politics is often more divisive than religion, join us to devote a posture of seeking to understand before being understood (as St. Francis of Assisi’s prayer says).
Please join us! Email carrie@thechurchlab.org for more info.
Join us for a night of nerding out about theology! We begin with Christian theology and expand from there, depending gone the perspectives and voices among us. Topic TBD. Email carrie@thechurchlab.org for more info!
Join us for a night of nerding out about theology! We begin with Christian theology and expand from there, depending gone the perspectives and voices among us. Topic TBD. Email carrie@thechurchlab.org for more info!
Join us for hangtime with anyone in TCL’s sphere! Location TBA as the date nears. Email carrie@thechurchlab.org for more info!
However it went, it’s a good time for dialogue. Join us as we reflect on how to be bridgebuilders in the election results and aftermath. Email carrie@thechurchlab.org for more info.
Join us for a dialogue about how our faith influences our experience of awe, wonder and even play! Email carrie@thechurchlab.org for more info.
Join us for our last dialogue of the year! We’ll be sharing stories of where our faith and/or spirituality has brought us Hope. Email carrie@thechurchlab.org for more info.
Please join and share about causes which have moved you or changed the lives of people you love. We’ll vote on donating 10% of TCL’s budget to causes we love as our multi-faith friendly “Advent Conspiracy.” We’ll also celebrate our year together as we prepare to pause for the holidays! Please email carrie@thechurchlab.org for more info.
Join in for a dialogue on what it means to belong, and how our belief systems inform our experience and influence on experiences of belonging.
Join us to nerd out about theology! Topic TBD when it gets closer. Look out for specifics in our weekly Thursday mailchimps!
Join us for a North Austin hangout! Come connect with people in ways you might not get a chance to at TCL events or cohort meetings!
Join us for a dialogue about multi-verse concepts. Is it just for sci-fi books and Marvel movies, or does it relate to your faith tradition, too?
TCL's Hang Night this month is a movie night and discussion! That means it is also friendly to local and far away friends alike! The Pope: Answers is a documentary in which young people come to the pope with their unbridled questions about religion. Can't wait to check this out and talk about it together!
What is the role of forgiveness in grace in your belief system and in your life? What are their roles, their limits…and where might they transcend limits?
Do you believe in magic? What counts as magic, and what doesn’t? How does your belief system inform how you engage the realm of magic? Join us for this -probably?- more lighthearted dialogue as we explore intersections between the mystical and the magical.
Join us for a special hangout night, where we’ll meet up to watch the documentary The Pope: Answers and talk about it afterward!
Books bans, freedom of speech. Gun control, Second Amendment. Join us for a dialogue about how our understanding of American rights related to our faith perspective and practice.
This dialogue is being hosted in South Austin by one of our dialoguers! Though as always, it is open to online participants as well!
Sometimes social groups’ lived experience directly informs interpretation of Scripture, such as with liberation theology or feminist theology. Join us as we nerd out on the ways various neighbors’ lives shed light on the meaning of sacred texts!
At this dialogue, we’ll explore various aspects of life and if or how our experience with spirituality intersects with them.
Join us at our kick-off dialogue. Bring a favorite dish to share if you’re local! We’ll talk about the effects and impact music has on our biology, our neurology, and of course, our faith.
We are trying TCL Hangouts in 2024! Come hang out and connect with others in TCL’s community. Get to know each other better, or finally get to ask questions there wasn’t time for during dialogue or another event. See you there and then!
Join us for our last dialogue of the year! It’s a special one.
We will talk about what it means to be a newbie, or to welcome newbies, in to a particular cultural context. What are the negotiations of welcome, assimilation and holding onto culture and language between 1st generation, 2nd generation and the residents welcoming them?
Join us to share about causes that mean a lot to you, and to hear about other incredible causes. We will donate 10% of The Church Lab’s budget by way of discussion and vote, and it’ll go to some of these causes. This is an exciting, inspiring time. Join us! RSVP by emailing carrie@thechurchlab.org.
This is a special dialogue in which those who have attended 3 recent dialogues are invited to engage this utmost sensitive topic. If you live within an hour of where we hold our sessions, we ask that you attend in-person. Please email carrie@thechurchlab.org with questions, to learn more or to RSVP. Please RSVP a week or more before the date of this dialogue.
Thank you for doing this important, good work with us!
Join in on serving Casa Marianella in Austin! This org does incredible work to help our neighbors who are refugees or asylum seekers.
Join us at a park off Barton -or walk one remotely in sync with us! We will reflect on our experiences afterward and then grab a bite for din together! We will find an affordable place for each of us to eat some yum food!