A One-Year Experiment in Sacred Attention, Creative Community & Moral Courage
The Listening Year
Have you ever - really - listened to what Jesus said and did? What if we could skip church and all the baggage, and choose the simple things that actually help us listen: the wisdom of good teaching, the community of good gathering, and the impact of good practicing?
Jesus After Christianity
24 biweekly podcast episodes exploring what Jesus taught before it became Christianity. Teaching rooted in Albert Nolan's classic Jesus Before Christianity, brought into conversation for today's crises.
Listening Sessions
Low-lit, music-infused gatherings where we pay attention to what Jesus actually said and did through music, conversation, teaching and practicing together. Table church meets Tiny Desk. A sanctuary of sacred attention. Belief optional.
Monthly Events
Each month we’ll set aside time and space to focus and grow in our own practices and with a community, feast together at an open table with meals and meaning, and laugh together as real medicine - resisting isolation and despair.
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Who Is This For?
With church, God is the personality and everyone has something to prove. With The Listening Year, God is in the practice and no one has anything to prove.
This is for you if you're:
Spiritually displaced but still believe another world is possible
Done with certainty but not done with meaning
Burned by church but not done with Jesus
Ready to practice solidarity instead of just thinking about it
You don't need to believe certain things to show up. Curiosity required. Belief optional.
The Crisis We Face
Wealth extraction, rising authoritarianism and religious extremism.
Jesus faced the same either-or: change or catastrophe
He didn't offer more beliefs. He offered practices—economic sharing, barrier-crossing, solidarity with the oppressed—that interrupted the trajectory toward destruction… and made people feel alive with meaning.
The question isn't whether you believe in Jesus.
The question is whether you believe another world is possible—and whether you're willing to practice it into existence.
© The Listening Year