Help us honor our 20th year of ministry and service!
Program Description
At Abbey of the Arts we celebrate financial accessibility and strive to make all of our programs available to those who long to participate. We offer many programs at no cost such as our daily and weekly email newsletters, the Lift Every Voice book club (including the Facebook group and bi-monthly podcast/video conversations), the Holy Disorder of Dancing Monks Facebook group, and our six 7-day Prayer Cycles of morning and evening prayer including audio and video podcasts.
We offer a sliding scale for all our online programs and extensive additional scholarship assistance to those who are in financial need.
We also celebrate compensating our many artist, musician, and ministry collaborators financially in ways that help support them in being able to thrive while creating meaningful resources for us and this community.
If you have the means to help us sustain these offerings, we invite you to consider joining our Sustainers Circle for the 2025-2026 academic year (August 2025-June 2026)! We will close registration in early September.
Each year we gather a core circle of financial supporters to help keep our offerings and our community open and accessible to all who desire a contemplative and creative life.
(If you are a Sustainer from this past year, your subscription does not automatically renew. We appreciate giving you the opportunity to make a discerning choice for your resources.)
*In 2025-2026 we will be creating video podcasts for the Cultivating Seeds of Liberation Prayer Cycle (Fall 2026 release).
What's Included
Dancing Monk Level
One time payment of $250 or 10 monthly payments of $25
- Contemplative prayer service (October 2024-May 2025)
- Weekly poem from Christine
- John?
- Private online retreat platform with a forum facilitated by Melinda Thomas to share with others.
Mystic Level
One time payment of $250 or 10 monthly payments of $25
- All of the above plus:
- Advent Retreat – Give Me a Word (December 2025)
- Lent Retreat – Earth, Our Original Monastery (March-April 2026)
Saint Level
One time payment of $250 or 10 monthly payments of $25
- All of the above plus:
- Resistance, Renewal, and Resilience
- The Work That Reconnects
- Way of the Monk, Path of the Artist
- Wisdom of Wild Grace
- A signed copy of Give Me a Word: The Promise of an Ancient Practice to Guide Your Year
Mystic Level
One time payment of $250 or 10 monthly payments of $25
- All of the above plus:
- Advent Retreat – Give Me a Word (December 2025)
- Lent Retreat – Earth, Our Original Monastery (March-April 2026)
What's Included
Dancing Monk Level
One time payment of $250 or 10 monthly payments of $25
- Monthly Contemplative Prayer Service (October 2024-June 2025)
- Weekly poem from Christine
- Two live sessions with Christine exclusive to the Sustainers Circle:
- Monday, November 24th: An Advent Preparation Gathering (3-4pm Ireland / 10-11am Eastern and will be recorded)
- Friday, March 20th: A Spring Equinox Gathering (2-3pm Ireland / 10-11 am Eastern and will be recorded)
- Private online retreat platform with a forum facilitated by Melinda Thomas to share with others.
Mystic Level
One time payment of $550 or 10 monthly payments of $55
- All of the above plus:
- Advent Retreat – Give Me a Word (December 2025)
- Lent Retreat – Earth, Our Original Monastery (March-April 2026)
Saint Level
One time payment of $1,100 or 10 monthly payments of $110
All of the above plus:
Archangel Level
One time payment of $1,600 or 10 monthly payments of $160
All of the above plus:
- All of our mini-retreats including:
- Loving into Justice: Pilgrimage through the Body
- Deep Rest Series: Autumn Equinox
- Deep Rest Series: Samhain
- Crossing Identity Boundaries: Where Hope Enlivens Us
- Deep Rest Series: Winter Solstice
- Deep Rest Series: The Feast of Brigid and Imbolc
- Seven African American Visionaries
- The Restorative Power of Love
- Journeying with Story
- The Psalms and a Gloriously Disrupted Life
- From Intention to Attention: Becoming Really Present in Prayer
- (11 in total)
- A signed copy of Give Me a Word: The Promise of an Ancient Practice to Guide Your Year
- An additional signed copy of one of Christine’s books (choose from Wisdom of Wild Grace, Dreaming of Stones, Love Holds You, Breath Prayer, Journey to Joy, A Different Kind of Fast)
This level includes all online programs that Abbey of the Arts hosts*
*it does not include any programs Christine leads for other organizations where registration happens through the host agency.
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Registration
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Terms and Conditions
Please consider your purchase carefully and review the many free materials we have on our website to make sure the program will be a good fit or get in touch with any questions.
We ask that you honor our work by not sharing the program materials with others who are not enrolled.
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If you choose a payment plan and stop payment before fulfilling the commitment without contacting us to make other arrangements, your access to the program will be removed.
