March 13 marks the 2-year anniversary of the unexpected and terrible end to Act Five’s first year. “You will not be moving back to Blake Street”.
By: Alyssa Zilney | March 11, 2022
Gordon T. Smith argues that to participate in God’s work equals deep joy. Act Five doesn’t exist to fill students with joy, as though they were empty vessels, but a huge part of our raison d’être is to engage with the questions.
By: Lena Scholman | March 3, 2022
“Familiarity breeds contempt.” This proverb, attributed to Aesop’s fable The Fox and the Lion, while possibly true for wild animals, has not proven to be the case for our students at Blake Street.
By: Lena Scholman | February 18, 2022
This month has taken our community for a wild ride. On Thursday nights we host storytellers, learning about what it means to be faithful amidst life’s twists and turns. This month’s series was titled “It Wasn’t What I Planned”. How true!
By: Alyssa Zilney | January 28, 2022
What is it you plan on doing with your one wild and precious life? Let us offer a glimpse of how God seems to be leading our collective life with Act Five.
By: Jon Berends | December 17, 2021
Oh, the places we've been! Act Five is not even three years old, and already we have established so many poignant traditions. Each December, our staff and students pack up the Communauto vans and head out of the city to reflect and retreat
By: Jon Berends | December 10, 2021
By: Jon Berends | November 11, 2021
By: Alyssa Zilney | October 22, 2021
Last year was a journey of living out our mission to be people who faithfully improvise. We don’t intend to stop doing that. We desire to be a community that is open to the movement of the Spirit.
By: Nina Drenth | August 31, 2021
As people who love and believe in the power and truth of the biblical story, what we are doing here can be a signpost. Perhaps, as we connect more to the soil and to each other, we can remember to hope.
By: Nina Drenth | July 12, 2021
Since being home after finishing Act Five, I have made a habit of walking through the ravine woods close to my home. I feel there is something freeing about simply being among trees and rocks and dirt that allows me to be a human.
By: Nina Drenth | June 10, 2021