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Mar 2024

Centering Prayer: Drawing Inspiration from Womanist Wisdom

Centering Prayer: Drawing Inspiration from Womanist Wisdom

Mar 20, 2024    
4:00 pm GMT - 5:00 pm GMT
with Therese Taylor-Stinson

Centering Prayer is a method of Christian meditation that places a strong emphasis on interior silence or stillness. Our time together will include checking in, teaching on a theme to inspire contemplation drawn from a wide variety of sources, time in silence together, and reflection. This month's theme is Drawing Inspiration from Womanist Wisdom.

Apr 2024

Contemplative Prayer Service

Contemplative Prayer Service

Apr 1, 2024    
6:00 pm IST - 7:00 pm IST
with Christine Valters Paintner, Simon de Voil, and special guest Te Martin

Join us on the first Monday of every month for an online contemplative prayer service. Simon de Voil will be leading music and Christine Valters Paintner will be leading reflection and lectio divina or other meditative practice. Special guest Te Martin will share their gift of music with us.
Animist Christianity: Tending Your Wild Heart with Our Beloved Plant Kin

Animist Christianity: Tending Your Wild Heart with Our Beloved Plant Kin

Apr 12, 2024    
4:00 pm IST - 6:00 pm IST
with Lindsay Sudeikis

We will contemplate and connect with our beloved plant kin, as Jesus, Mary, and so many saints have done for centuries.
Centering Prayer

Centering Prayer

Apr 17, 2024    
5:00 pm IST - 6:00 pm IST
with Therese Taylor-Stinson

Centering Prayer is a method of Christian meditation that places a strong emphasis on interior silence or stillness. Our time together will include checking in, teaching on a theme to inspire contemplation drawn from a wide variety of sources, time in silence together, and reflection.
Awakening the Creative Spirit: Experiential Education in the Expressive Arts (Northwest)

Awakening the Creative Spirit: Experiential Education in the Expressive Arts (Northwest)

Apr 21, 2024 - Apr 26, 2024    
All Day
with Kayce Stevens Hughlett and Betsey Beckman

A five-day, in person, experiential intensive exploring tools for integrating the arts and imagination into spiritual direction and other healing ministries.
Virtual Celtic Pilgrimage: The Wisdom of Irish Saints Colman, Sourney, and Patrick

Virtual Celtic Pilgrimage: The Wisdom of Irish Saints Colman, Sourney, and Patrick

Apr 23, 2024 - May 1, 2024    
3:00 pm IST - 4:15 pm IST
with Christine Valters Paintner and guest teachers

This year’s pilgrimage celebrates the feast of Bealtaine (or sometimes spelled Beltane) which is the Celtic feast of blossoming and the start of the light half of the year in the northern hemisphere.

May 2024

Contemplative Prayer Service

Contemplative Prayer Service

May 6, 2024    
6:00 pm IST - 7:00 pm IST
with Christine Valters Paintner, Simon de Voil, and special guest Soyinka Rahim

Join us on the first Monday of every month for an online contemplative prayer service. Simon de Voil will be leading music and Christine Valters Paintner will be leading reflection and lectio divina or other meditative practice. Special guest Soyinka Rahim will share her gift of music with us.
Centering Prayer

Centering Prayer

May 15, 2024    
5:00 pm IST - 6:00 pm IST
with Therese Taylor-Stinson

Centering Prayer is a method of Christian meditation that places a strong emphasis on interior silence or stillness. Our time together will include checking in, teaching on a theme to inspire contemplation drawn from a wide variety of sources, time in silence together, and reflection.
Queering Contemplation: Finding Queerness in the Roots and Future of Contemplative Spirituality

Queering Contemplation: Finding Queerness in the Roots and Future of Contemplative Spirituality

May 24, 2024    
4:00 pm IST - 6:00 pm IST
with Cassidy Hall, MA, MDiv, MTS

Our time together in queering contemplation will examine what it means to queer the deserts of our lives, what it feels like to queer our inner sanctuary, and how letting go of the contemplative status quo and trusting our own inner experience can expand our lives into infinite possibility.

Jun 2024

Contemplative Prayer Service

Contemplative Prayer Service

Jun 3, 2024    
6:00 pm IST - 7:00 pm IST
with Christine Valters Paintner, Simon de Voil, and special guest Dena Jennings

Join us on the first Monday of every month for an online contemplative prayer service. Simon de Voil will be leading music and Christine Valters Paintner will be leading reflection and lectio divina or other meditative practice. Special guest Dena Jennings will share her gift of music with us.
Stretching of the Heart: A Celtic Mini-Retreat on St. Columba

Stretching of the Heart: A Celtic Mini-Retreat on St. Columba

Jun 7, 2024    
4:00 pm IST - 6:00 pm IST
with Christine Valters Paintner, Simon de Voil, and Kenneth Steven

Join us two days before St. Columba's(or or Columcille as he is known in Ireland) feast day to reflect on the Celtic call to pilgrimage, which includes leaving behind what is known and loved and the grief that evokes, for the promise of new adventures.