Our Dinner Gatherings are held at 5:00pm in person at The Hut/Cornelius Presbyterian Church on the First Sunday of each month. All are welcome at the table!

Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother’s plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his father’s life in America was circumscribed by his work killing chickens at a factory farm in the Midwest. Cyrus is a drunk, an addict, and a poet, whose obsession with martyrs leads him to examine the mysteries of his past—toward an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields dressed as the angel of death to inspire and comfort the dying, and toward his mother, through a painting discovered in a Brooklyn art gallery that suggests she may not have been who or what she seemed.

Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves, others.

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • ATIME MUST-READ BOOK OF THE YEAR • A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a remarkable search for a family secret that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum. Electrifying, funny, and wholly original, Martyr! heralds the arrival of an essential new voice in contemporary fiction.

“Kaveh Akbar is one of my favorite writers. Ever.” —Tommy Orange, Pulitzer Prize–nominated author of There There

“The best novel you'll ever read about the joy of language, addiction, displacement, martyrdom, belonging, homesickness.” —Lauren Groff, best-selling author of Matrix and Fates and Furies

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Read more about our Spiritual Exploration Series here.

This week, we will take some time to clean up inside and outside our Gathering space, Th Hut. Bring your gloves and energy for some spring cleaning!

Our Sunday gatherings are usually held at 9:00am on Zoom and in person at The Hut/Cornelius Presbyterian Church except for the First Sunday of each month when we have Dinner Gathering at 5:00pm.

Want to join us on Zoom? Sign up for our email list! The link is emailed one hour before The Gathering!

Our Sunday gatherings are held at 9:00am on Zoom and in person at The Hut/Cornelius Presbyterian Church except for the First Sunday of each month when we have Dinner Gathering at 5:00pm.

Want to join us on Zoom? Sign up for our email list! The link is emailed one hour before The Gathering!

Bring 3 items that bring value to your life and share their story.

This group meets on the third Tuesday evening of the month at 7:00 PM at The Hut. We will live and discuss difficult topics together. Please bring a snack to share along with your own beverage.

Twice per year, the streets of Old Town Cornelius transform into a high-energy, open-air festival bursting with local flavor. From 100+ artists and makers to food trucks, live music on multiple stages, and family-friendly fun—Tawba Walk is Cornelius' flagship community celebration.

More information here: https://www.tawbawalk.com/

Stop by and see us at the Inclusion Community table!

Our Sunday gatherings are held at 9:00am on Zoom and in person at The Hut/Cornelius Presbyterian Church except for the First Sunday of each month when we have Dinner Gathering at 5:00pm.

Want to join us on Zoom? Sign up for our email list! The link is emailed one hour before The Gathering!

Our Dinner Gatherings are held at 5:00pm in person at The Hut/Cornelius Presbyterian Church on the First Sunday of each month. All are welcome at the table!

After a storm has killed off all the island's men, two women in a 1600s Norwegian coastal village struggle to survive against both natural forces and the men who have been sent to rid the community of alleged witchcraft.

Finnmark, Norway, 1617. Twenty-year-old Maren Magnusdatter stands on the craggy coast, watching the sea break into a sudden and reckless storm. Forty fishermen, including her brother and father, are drowned and left broken on the rocks below. With the menfolk wiped out, the women of the tiny Northern town of Vardø must fend for themselves.

Three years later, a sinister figure arrives. Absalom Cornet comes from Scotland, where he burned witches in the northern isles. He brings with him his young Norwegian wife, Ursa, who is both heady with her husband's authority and terrified by it. In Vardø, and in Maren, Ursa sees something she has never seen before: independent women. But Absalom sees only a place untouched by God and flooded with a mighty evil.

As Maren and Ursa are pushed together and are drawn to one another in ways that surprise them both, the island begins to close in on them with Absalom's iron rule threatening Vardø's very existence.

Inspired by the real events of the Vardø storm and the 1620 witch trials, The Mercies is a feminist story of love, evil, and obsession, set at the edge of civilization.

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Our Sunday gatherings are held at 9:00am on Zoom and in person at The Hut/Cornelius Presbyterian Church except for the First Sunday of each month when we have Dinner Gathering at 5:00pm.

Want to join us on Zoom? Sign up for our email list! The link is emailed one hour before The Gathering!

Our Sunday gatherings are held at 9:00am on Zoom and in person at The Hut/Cornelius Presbyterian Church except for the First Sunday of each month when we have Dinner Gathering at 5:00pm.

Want to join us on Zoom? Sign up for our email list! The link is emailed one hour before The Gathering!

* Wear flip flops or slip ons to this conversation*
*Bring a journal*
Part 1: Questions to Ponder

When was the last time your bare feet touched the ground outside?

Throughout your life what has this been like for you to connect with the earth?

Part 2: Earthing 101 Activity

Part 3: Journal 10-15 minutes

Part 4: Discussion

Our Sunday gatherings are held at 9:00am on Zoom and in person at The Hut/Cornelius Presbyterian Church except for the First Sunday of each month when we have Dinner Gathering at 5:00pm.

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Our Sunday gatherings are held at 9:00am on Zoom and in person at The Hut/Cornelius Presbyterian Church except for the First Sunday of each month when we have Dinner Gathering at 5:00pm.

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • STONEWALL HONOR BOOK  •  LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER  •  NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST

"You have to read this.” —Rainbow Rowell, bestselling author of Eleanor & Park and Carry On

From the New York Times bestselling author of Every Day, this love story of shared humanity and history Hypable calls "an interconnecting web that will leave you emotionally exhausted and absolutely thrilled to have read something so beautiful and unique." 

Based on true events—and narrated by a Greek Chorus of the generation of gay men lost to AIDS—Two Boys Kissing follows Harry and Craig, two seventeen-year-olds who are about to take part in a 32-hour marathon of kissing to set a new Guinness World Record. While the two increasingly dehydrated and sleep-deprived boys are locking lips, they become a focal point in the lives of other teens dealing with universal questions of love, identity, and belonging.

See all Past and Upcoming Titles Here

Our Dinner Gatherings are held at 5:00pm in person at The Hut/Cornelius Presbyterian Church on the First Sunday of each month. All are welcome at the table!

Our Sunday gatherings are held at 9:00am on Zoom and in person at The Hut/Cornelius Presbyterian Church except for the First Sunday of each month when we have Dinner Gathering at 5:00pm.

Want to join us on Zoom? Sign up for our email list! The link is emailed one hour before The Gathering!

Part 1: Questions to Ponder

Why is water important to you?

Do you have any life changing events water was a symbol in your life?

Do you think water is important?

Part 2: The Spring: Charity Water's Story

Part 3: Discussion after The Spring

Our Sunday gatherings are held at 9:00am on Zoom and in person at The Hut/Cornelius Presbyterian Church except for the First Sunday of each month when we have Dinner Gathering at 5:00pm.

Want to join us on Zoom? Sign up for our email list! The link is emailed one hour before The Gathering!

Our Sunday gatherings are held at 9:00am on Zoom and in person at The Hut/Cornelius Presbyterian Church except for the First Sunday of each month when we have Dinner Gathering at 5:00pm.

Want to join us on Zoom? Sign up for our email list! The link is emailed one hour before The Gathering!