Why aren't you dancing your butt off at a club tonight? Is it your two left feet? Did your friends make fun of your bad moves until you just gave up and stopped going? Are you self-conscious about what to do about your arms... or your legs... or your whole body? Maybe you're curious but too nervous to actually step onto the floor and let loose. Do you have trouble finding the rhythm when you hear a song? Are you addicted to the salt shakers or the lawnmower? Do memories of homecoming or prom (or …

Outdoor Movie Nights! When Chicago's warmer summer weather allows it, we set up an outdoor movie night each month to take advantage of the season (generally May - Sept). In October, when it gets a bit too cold for movies, we set up a haunted house and pumpkin patch.   The lawn space opens early for people to spread out their picnic blankets, mingle with their friends and neighbors, and grab a bite to eat. Before show time - we grill out and BBQ for a few hours while we wait for dusk. People are …

… You will die over and over again to dispel your ignorance, lighting candles in the dark, refusing to live in a demon-haunted world, bowing to no god, but alive to mystery and willing to sacrifice your most sacred truths even if it leaves you temporarily hollow of meaning and identity. You aspire to ontological humility. You want to become something better, for yourself and for everyone else, even if the product of that process is unrecognizable from what you are now. On a good day you are not an …