How did Open Presence come about?
I grew up in the Christian church. My parents were pastors of a church in a service-oriented denomination that had roots in Methodism. Our church baptised people, took communion, and worked with people experiencing homelessness and drug addiction. Around the time I started high school, our family started practicing Biblical feasts that were typically seen as Jewish instead of Christian: Passover, Yom Kippur, Sukkot. We started eating kosher and observing the Sabbath, saying if Jesus did it,…