The Stage at C3

C3 Presents: Foster aka Autopilot

C3 Spiritual Community — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

This week’s Gathering brings our third Guest Teacher for October, Foster aka AutoPilot, who is one of the co-founders and a teaching artist with The Diatribe, one of Grand Rapids’ premier arts and culture non-profit organizations. He is a professional orator whose work is infused with joy and humor.

Get Up Offa That Thing presented by Brad Ruggles

C3 Spiritual Community — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 10:59:07 +0000

In The Beat of My Drum, Nigerian drummer Babatunde Olatunji says that, "rhythm is the soul of life, because the whole universe revolves around rhythm.”

Where We’re At – Where We Need to Go presented by Jay Kaplan

C3 Spiritual Community — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 11:43:27 +0000

We reflect on the progress that we have made towards LGBTQ+ rights, both nationally and in Michigan, while at the same time focusing on the challenges that we currently face, in light of the political attacks against the LGBTQ+ community, particularly the transgender community.

Summer of Sound – Week 1: Good Vibrations

C3 Spiritual Community — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 11:03:48 +0000

Brad Ruggles explores how our musical tastes begin forming early in childhood, then keep changing through relationships, culture, memory, and experience.

The Call of Ritual by Ruth Zwald

C3 Spiritual Community — Sun, 24 May 2026 11:23:59 +0000

How do we begin to listen and to respond when our soul is trying to tell us that ritual would be helpful? How can we listen to our longings, and then find ways to express and respond to those longings? We explore following the natural world that surrounds us, and find ways to lean into ritual “bit by bit.”

Thresholds – Rituals for Moving Through by Brad Ruggles

C3 Spiritual Community — Sun, 17 May 2026 11:13:00 +0000

We explore how rituals can help us mark life’s thresholds, whether they come as beginnings, endings, fresh starts, difficult goodbyes, or strange in-between seasons. Threshold rituals give our big emotions somewhere to go besides our shoulders, stomachs, jaws, nervous systems, and late-night Amazon carts.

Small Sacred Things by Brad Ruggles

C3 Spiritual Community — Sun, 10 May 2026 11:01:00 +0000

We explore how small, repeatable practices can become containers for growth, healing, and attention. Drawing from traditional wisdom, modern science, and reflections on ritual in the African Dagara tradition, we look at how rituals create thresholds between one way of being and another.

Why Ritual Matters presented by Brad Ruggles

C3 Spiritual Community — Sun, 03 May 2026 10:55:03 +0000

In this opening week of our series, The Ritual Life, we explore why human beings have always turned to rhythm, repetition, gesture, song, silence, and shared practices to create connection and make meaning in a chaotic world. Rituals help ground us

Laughing Our Way Awake presented by Brad Ruggles

C3 Spiritual Community — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 11:34:29 +0000

This week, we’ll explore what happens when that way of seeing begins to soften how we move through life. Humor, laughter, and exuberant joy are not distractions from reality. They can be ways of meeting reality with greater spaciousness, resilience, and wonder. Laughter helps us zoom out, unclench our butt-cheeks a little, and better appreciate the strange, beautiful, and often ridiculous experience of being human

Beauty in Broken Things presented by Brad Ruggles

C3 Spiritual Community — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 10:59:46 +0000

We spend a lot of energy trying to smooth the edges, hide the cracks, and present the polished version of ourselves. This week, we’ll explore the quiet power of things that bear the marks of time, use, loss, and repair, and why they often move us in ways polished perfection cannot. In a culture fixated on flawless appearances, we’re making room for the light that shines through the cracks, for the grace that emerges through loss, change, and the passage of time.