Biblical Storytelling belongs to all God’s people. The Bible came out of a storytelling culture and we want to re-awaken the power and the beauty of that living voice. In this retreat we will uncover the hidden pattern found in every biblical story, a pattern placed there to guide the ancient storytellers. We will use …
View course details “Reawakening the Oral Tradition of the Bible”
How might we probe more deeply, at this historical moment, how love and care for the earth can be understood as central to our Christian faith and practice? Overview: Though it is common in church circles to hear earth care and sustainable living extolled in broad terms, as moral virtues honored as well by nonbelievers, we …
View course details “Toward Greener Faith: An Ecological Vision for Our Time”
(Also available: Introduction to Journaling November 18, 2021: 7:00pm-8:30pm, online, $57) Please note this is an Online Event that will be taking place over Zoom. Program Information: Journaling is a practice open to ANYONE. It’s how people have recorded their lives, loves, journeys, struggles and victories. It can be a vehicle for making notes about …
View course details “Journaling for Personal Growth”
A weekend retreat at Mount Carmel The shadow consists of everything (beliefs, attitudes, emotions and behaviours) which we drove back into our unconscious for fear of being rejected by those important to our safety and wellbeing when we were young. Using a gentle psychospiritual framework, Jungian psychology and gospel references, we will explore the hidden …
View course details “LIVING FULLY: BEFRIENDING YOUR SHADOW”
There are times in our lives when the veil seems to lift and we know the holy oneness of heaven and Earth. In these thin places, we become lost in wonder and held in Love. The Holy Isle of Iona, Scotland is often referred to as such a place, and on this day we will …
View course details “Thin Places: Openings to the Sacred–Retreat”
November 5-7, 2021 with the Rev. Canon Karen Montagno “Where do we go from here? Chaos or community?” It’s a question the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King posed in the late 1960s to society in a time of seeming chaos, challenge, and change, and it resonates in these times. Explore this question with the Rev. …
View course details “Abundance in the Midst of Challenge–Retreat”
October 29-31, 2021 with the Rev. Spencer Reece In this retreat, the Episcopal priest and poet Rev. Spencer Reece discusses his spiritual and literary journey. He will connect literature to the Bible, uniting art and church in a way our culture has moved away from. The Rev. Reece will explore how poetry, AA, and Al-Anon led …
View course details “A Poet, A Priest–Retreat”
October 8-10, 2021 with Joseph Rose, Executive Director of Visitor Experience at Trinity Retreat Center and an Episcopal seminarian at Yale Divinity School, and Mary Davenport, a Hebrew Bible scholar and program assistant at the retreat center. “Where are you?” “Do you have reason to be angry?” “Where have you come from, and where are …
View course details “The Questions God Asks–Retreat”
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