For three days in late August, nearly 100 of us gathered at 8000 feet above sea level in the heart of the Rockies for a first-ever-experience: Weird Church Camp. Inspired by the title of the book that Beth Estock and I published last year, this was a place where creative souls in ministry could gather to network, to do Sabbath and to find encouragement for their journeys. For those who read Weird Church, you know that this is not a TYPE of congregation. It is not about out-of-the-box ministry even. It is about doing what might seem counter-intuitive to church institutions that are still grounded organizationally and culturally in the mid-to-late twentieth century. That's it.
