Circle of the Beloved

07/15/2023

Circle Alums Reunite! Lots of belovedness radiating from Circle’s 6th cohort: Kat, Megan, and Shaniece.

“A threefold cord is not quickly broken.”
— Ecclesiastes 4:12

06/29/2023

Circle of the Beloved is seeking two more young leaders to join our 2023-2024 cohort! Ages 21 to 29; August through July; $450 per month for rent and utilities in Liberty House (1830 James Avenue N., Minneapolis); two Chaplain visits a month; and resources for building . Please share this Google Application Form with young leaders in your network!

Circle of the Beloved is a young adult organization that invites four young adults (ages 21-29) each year to live in intentional community and spend 12 months together being personally, spiritually, and vocationally formed. These fellows work in the community, offering 'kinship across lines of diffe...

06/29/2023

Thanks be to God for our beloved fellow Olivia Holgate and our beloved partners in equipping and empowering young leaders to build St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church! "Here am I. Send me."

Some of the SJE staff were able to take Olivia Holgate out to lunch on her last day of work this week. Thanks be to God for Olivia’s dedication and faithful service to our faith community over the past year. Because of our partnership with Circle of the Beloved and Olivia’s leadership, our Faith-in-Action and Children, Youth, & Family ministries were better supported and stronger overall this year. Blessings on the next step in your journey, Olivia! Thank you for all you did this year!

06/20/2023

Very proud of our Circle of the Beloved alum, Grant Two Bulls! Looking forward to hearing Grant preach on Saint Enmegahbowh this Sunday, June 25 at St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church!

This Sunday we will be joined by guest preacher Grant Two Bulls for our Racial Reconciliation and Healing service honoring Saint Enmegahbowh!

Grant Two Bulls, son of the Rev. Robert Two Bulls and Ritchie Two Bulls, was baptized and grew up in the Episcopal Church, and more recently lived and served in the Circle of the Beloved in Minneapolis, MN. Grant grew up in Minneapolis and attended Breck School, Dartmouth College, and is now a second year law student at Georgetown.

06/12/2023

Yesterday, we gave thanks and celebrated the Reverend Susan Moss, the Reverend Sarah Miller, and the Reverend Craig Lemming’s completion of their ministries with us as Board Members, as well as St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church’s Circle Fellow Olivia Holgate’s culmination of her year of spiritual discernment and service. Join us in celebrating Circle of the Beloved’s seventh year of equipping and empowering young leaders to build !

If you know of any young leaders aged 21 to 29 who are seeking to live in an intentional community with a co-created Rule of Life, please send them our website: http://www.circleofthebeloved.org

06/05/2023

05/14/2023

Congrats to Circle of the Beloved alum Sarah Elaine Lofgren Brickson -newly minted JD U of MN Law. So proud and exited for you. Now Go! Make the world a better place.

03/29/2023

‘Meeks writes, “It might be a wonderful project for a group of thoughtful people to come together and work on designing an intentional community that reflects true diversity.” Over the last seven years, Circle of the Beloved’s young adults, Board, and ministry partners have been working hard to do this by creating kinship across all lines of difference in North Minneapolis and across the metro. With Meeks, “We knew that the wounds of the past would not disappear simply because we wished for that to be the case. The work of healing had to be done.”’

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In Part 6 of The Night is Long But Light Comes in the Morning, Dr. Meeks invites us to stand in solidarity with those who suffer by being brokenhearted fellow pilgrims with them. Meeks writes, “When we allow our hearts to break for one another, a new dynamic of vulnerability can emerge that makes ...

11/09/2022

God bless our beloved neighbors at Visitation Monastery North Minneapolis!

The six sisters of Visitation Monastery dedicated their lives to making a difference in north Minneapolis and have, in turn, become beloved and indispensable members of the community.

11/08/2022

The Liberty House folks are cheesin on Election Day. We just voted this morning to do our part in making the future brighter in Minnesota 📣📣 Then we bought some caffeinated drinks to celebrate. We hope that you can get out and vote today!! 🗳️

11/01/2022

Happy late Halloween from the fellows at Liberty House! We had some fun carving pumpkins and roasting pumpkins seeds last week. We also noticed that the pumpkins make a very nice treat for the squirrels…