David Carl Olson seeks to build community by sharing the human story and reflecting on its meaning. Through theater and music, through meditative practice and public action, he examines the distance between the kinds of relationships that morality, ethics and faith assert, and the everyday world "as it is."
          This "as it is/as it should be" relationship is full of tension. But its challenges and contradictions provide places where we can discover our power to act. In playfulness and invention, we find opportunities where we can exert our creativity. The freedom we cherish is the grand marker of what it means to be human and to become conscious.

In small group ministry, I learned from a deeply spiritual person that our lives need to be about “progress, not perfection.” I am grateful that in this website, like in my life, I am often tinkering with what might amount to little improvements. Thank you for engaging “the world as it is.”