Long-cuts

“Take the long-cut,” my sister-in-law said. She had received a teaching award (she’s a professor) and was speaking about what riding bikes has taught her. She talked about riding bikes in occupied Gaza with Palestinian women and riding bikes in ultramarathon bike races across Europe.

Long-cuts are the opposite of short-cuts, she said; the longer harder ways. While the world pressures us into short-cuts, speed, efficiency, it’s the long-cuts where life, relationship, creativity, and the way to a new world can be found.

Hike Church is a long-cut. A slow, strange, out of the box way to worship and commune with Creator, creation, and each other. It's a gentle, two-hour-or-shorter hike, with a pause for scripture and communion. We walk because Jesus walked. -PC