Welcome & Meet the Aurora Commons!

Art by Barry Blankenship. Image courtesy of Seattle Weekly.

Art by Barry Blankenship. Image courtesy of Seattle Weekly.

Hello Friends! Welcome to my rePlacing Church site. Please take a look around. I hope to be writing regularly here soon, but in the meantime, please check out a story about something that will inform quite a bit of what I write about here. The Seattle Weekly recently did a feature story on the Aurora Commons, the neighborhood living room and resource center I started with the amazing and courageous people of Awake Church five long years ago.

Ericka Frodsham scrapes the last of the soup from an enormous stockpot into a yogurt container without a lid. It is after 9 p.m. and Aurora Commons is technically closed. But without a home, Frodsham is loath to leave… [continue reading…]