In recent weeks we’ve had a flurry of friends of the Festival (trying saying that five times fast!) sharing their Wild Goose anticipations via blog and video. Here’s a taste:

We are very aware that it will not be the perfect gathering of people that will solve the entire cadre world’s problems and bring ultimate cosmic transformation, where candy cotton flowers will bloom and angels will be putting us to sleep with holy lullabies. But because we know the Sacred have this way of seeping through the crevices of our broken humanity and ill treated nature, we’ll be wide-eyed looking for bright manifestations of joy and hope.

Because of the reality of Creation and Incarnation humans are able to bring a sense of transformation that honors “placeness” in the world. In the light of such reality human response must not be a private one, but one that intervenes and makes public God’s presence in the world.  With this understanding, human activities and relationships in particular localities have the blessed opportunity to be sacraments pointing to God’s loving relationship and activity in the world. Therefore, for Ricci and I, the Festival can be a humble and fragile but vibrant sacrament of God-space (a.k.a. God’s Kingdom).

- keep reading Why Are We Going to the Wild Goose Festival? A Practice on Sacramental Living by Eliacin Rosario-Cruz!

- see more videos from Callid Keefe-Perry at The Image of Fish!

Wild Goose exists at the intersection of justice, spirituality and art; we’re aiming to become a space for serious engagment with issues of justice and injustice that face us from those in our own neighborhoods to global issues. We’ll host conversations with some of the leading figures and organizations working at the cutting edge of promoting peace, equity, and the “re-humanizing” of the world.

Those who wish to live as Christians, Jews, Muslims, agnostics, (fill-in-the-blank) or atheists by following the humble thread of what I’ll call divine uncertainty – as opposed to those who wish to force others to be like them by using Christianity, Judaism, Islam, or doctrinaire secularism as a weapon – must shift from unquestioning faith in their religions to a life-affirming message of transcendence.

- Continue reading Changing What the Word “Christian” Means Into Something Good by Frank Schaeffer

…and last but not least, listen to Chad Crawford and Gareth Higgins discuss peace, reconciliation, and learning to not kill your enemy (when they’ve been trying to kill you) on The Goose Is Loose – on Homebrewed Christianity!

Have a great weekend. And while you’re enjoying this weekend, why not tell three friends that the Wild Goose Festival is only 33 days away! (See our handy day counter to stay on top of this.) If they haven’t yet reserved their tickets, they should – Limited Advance tickets are going fast!