THE CLEARING COMMUNITY
Inspired by the sacred refusal of the historical hush harbors—the Clearing Community reclaims that legacy as a digital and embodied sanctuary for today’s spiritual fugitives.
The Clearing is a new expression of an ancient intelligence. We are cultivating a decentralized community of soulful leaders who gather online and in-person to rest, remember, and rise.
We practice liberation through joy, truth-telling, and embodied presence.
a post-Christian attempt to do church well.
Culture as Sacred Text.
We read the Bible—but we also read Beyoncé, Baldwin, Kendrick, and our grandmothers.
We believe the sacred speaks through culture, protest, music, and movement.
We gather with playlists, not just hymnals.
Resurrection as a Way of Life.
We follow Jesus not to escape suffering—but to rise in the face of it.
Resurrection is not perfection—it’s embodied, evolving, everyday freedom.
We rise again and again, for ourselves and each other.
ATTEMPTING A A RULE OF LIFE GROUNDED IN DISCERNMENT, NOT DOGMA.
Radical Truth-Telling
We name what’s real—in ourselves, our communities, and our society. We hold space for grief, rage, joy, doubt, and contradiction. Truth is sacred, even when it disrupts.
Ethical Relationality
Resurrection is not perfection—it’s embodied, evolving, everyday freedom.
We rise again and again, for ourselves and each other.
queerness as holiness.
We follow Jesus in resisting systems of domination, supremacy, and spiritual control.
We reject the logics of fear, coercion, hierarchy, and exclusion—and choose the path of justice, truth, and radical love.
Spiritual Grounding
We honor our interdependence and practice mutual care from the perspective of nonduality and nonseparateness. We embrace complexity and refuse moral binaries. There is no them,— we are only us.
Tethered Tradition
We follow Jesus in resisting systems of domination, supremacy, and spiritual control.
We reject the logics of fear, coercion, hierarchy, and exclusion—and choose the path of justice, truth, and radical love.
