A multimedia storytelling event featuring artist Scott Erickson
Watch the event trailer: https://vimeo.com/117144236
Suggested ticket price $5-$10 - Scott is a traveling artist taking his show to as many places as possible. As a result we set the ticket price with a minimum in order for attendees to contribute more than just a base ticket price if they would like to do more to support his work.
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There comes a moment in all of our lives when pain confronts our religious ideology. Our pain can come in many forms – tragedy, loss, brokenness. Mine was severe depression brought about by burnout. Burnout from working at a church even.
In that time, what I thought my beliefs were supposed to do for me failed… and I found myself wrestling with the fact that maybe faith as I knew it was over. This is a very frightening space to be in. More than that, I discovered something even more frightening than the possibility of losing faith in my life… the fear of losing community.
The truth is the “journey of faith” encounters many such seasons as this. Depression is widespread. All of us will encounter tragedy of some kind. Many of us will go through the “dark night of the soul.” Conversations like this can be very difficult ones in our religious communities though. Leadership is not fully free to talk about their own doubts. Congregants are afraid to question their beliefs for fear of being excommunicated. But the reality is this is a difficult but universal part of everyones faith journey. What we need is for someone to share their own story to help give us words and solidarity with our own questions, fears and hopes.
WE ARE NOT TROUBLED GUESTS is a multi-media storytelling experience where I explore many different stages of this journey. Through humor, storytelling, and curated video, I walk the audience through anger, pain, despair, helplessness, confession, acceptance – all of which leads us to a very transformational and transcendent personal experience I had… which changes the way I see the entire human race and our place in it.