The Community of Liberated Spirits

The Community of Liberated Spirits

Our History

 Our Beginnings
The Sankofa Bird
The conversation leading to the founding of this Order was where we discerned a great need within our world for spiritual discipline, strengthening, and community.  The Community of Liberated Spirits’ birth is thus our faithful response to God’s call for a Fourth Great Spiritual Awakening. The primary sense we have of this need stems from living in a time when familiar, traditional religious structures are struggling, and, in many instances, failing to meet the spiritual “need of present urgencies.” In following with the mission of the Interdenominational Conference of Liberation Congregations and Ministries (ICLCM) organization to “support, nurture and care for ministers, pastors, congregations and ministries who share in the Inclusive Gospel of Jesus Christ across denominational lines,” we are covenanting as a Community to form an intentional religious community for all God’s people.

 

The Meditating Man

Our Mission

Guardian John along with the other members of CLS are committed to promoting an emergent religious order whereby all who hunger for God might reclaim the idea of intentional religious life. Although we are not a religious order solely for clergy, we are well aware of the difficulty clergy face as they struggle to feed themselves spiritually in the same place where they serve. All seeking a path and community with which to embark upon a lifelong pilgrimage are thus welcome to become a part of the Community of Liberated Spirits.

 Our Covenant of Reclamation

What do we mean by reclaim? We simply seek to reaffirm by reclamation what Protestantism has until recently rejected: that intentional religious life is not contrary to the Christian Gospel, but essential to sustaining a lifetime of faithful discipleship. We believe the mystical traditions of our world, at their core, affirm the life-giving tenets of Protestantism. The Community of Liberated Spirits, in its worldly work, seeks to add to those Reformation insights by taking seriously the need for an intentional spiritual life strengthening every person’s overall health and growing understanding of Christ’s teachings.

This is an Invitation!
For more information, contact Bishop Selders @ amistaducc-ct@gmail.com.

 


“I will sing a new song. As difficult as it is, I must learn the new song that is capable of meeting the new need.  I must fashion new words born of all the new growth of my life, my mind and my spirit. I must prepare for new melodies that have never been mine before, that all that is within me may lift my voice unto God…I will sing, this day, a new song unto Thee, O God.”

The Late Rev. Dr. Howard Thurman 1899-1981

 

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