Price: $355.00 Date: May 30, 2014 Dr. Stewart Bitkoff May 30-June 1, 2014 Over millennia, the Golden Path or Superhighway to God has had many names; at various times, called the Original Religion, Primordial Tradition, the Secret Teaching, Way of the Heart and Perennial Philosophy. For followers, it is the inner core of religious …
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Price: $395.00 Date: May 16, 2014 Matthew Fox and Adam Bucko May 14-16, 2014 We are currently feeling the need for a spirituality that no longer hides our contemplatives in comfortable monasteries, but instead recognizes that we are all called to be mystics and prophets at once. This new spirituality integrates contemplation with activism …
View course details “Intergenerational Wisdom: Occupy Spirituality and Revolutionize Your Life, Church, and Community”
Price: $375.00 Date: May 2, 2014 Chris Glaser May 2-4, 2014 While writing more than 40 books on the spiritual life, Roman Catholic priest Henri Nouwen taught at Notre Dame, Yale, and Harvard and spent long periods of time in a Trappist monastery and among the poor of Latin America. Yet it was L’Arche, …
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Price: $335.00 Date: April 25, 2014 Denise Crawn April 25-27, 2014 Come spend the weekend here on the mountain with Kirkridge staff member Denise Crawn and “remember” how to “Walk Awake”. This retreat will be held both indoors and outdoors and will include utilizing our natural instincts and awareness in our daily surroundings, learning …
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Price: $325.00 Date: March 28, 2014 Gordon Oyer March 28-30, 2014 Fifty years ago a handful of peace advocates (including Kirkridge founder John O. Nelson) gath-ered with the contemplative monk and writer Thomas Merton to discuss the “spiritual roots” that nurtured their calling and shaped their actions. Over the last years, Gordon Oyer has …
View course details “Reflecting on Spiritual Roots of Protest – 1964-2014”
Price: $365.00 Date: March 21, 2014 Bill Gibbons March 21-23, 2014 When the first 100 members of Alcoholics Anonymous who got sober asked themselves how they did it they came up with the 12 Steps. From the mid- 1930’s to now many more people than alcoholics have found the solution of the 12 Steps …
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Price: $360.00 Date: March 14, 2014 Carolyn McDade Mar 14-16, 2014 We sing music of Carolyn McDade, as well as others, and the songs of social movements. We reflect in silence, communal sharing, and simple ritualized moments. Entering the circle as persons, we collectively create who we are together. Cost $360 includes double occupancy room, …
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Price: $365.00 Date: March 7, 2014 John Finn March 7-9, 2014 As we yearn for authentic community in Christ, many are beginning to take a fresh look at monasticism. It is not the monasticism of the high middle ages when the movement had all but ossified; but rather the movement in its beginnings in …
View course details “Swimming to Holy Island? Lindidfarne Community and the New Monastics”
Price: $365.00 Date: February 28, 2014 Michael Morwood Feb. 28-Mar. 2, 2014 This weekend offers the opportunity to discuss and reflect on the key issues in his book: It’s Time. Challenges to the Doctrine of the Faith. Topics will include: understanding “God” in the 21st century, moving beyond the worldview and the Christology …
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Price: $365.00 Date: January 31, 2014 Richard Priggie Jan. 31-Feb. 2, 2014 While books of fiction may not be factual, they may also be deeply true, awakening the imagination to shape lives of meaning, intelligence and beauty. As we immerse ourselves during this year’s Light to Read By in the context and …
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