Retreats:

General Clergy, Lay and Women Retreats

With any of the courses, no particular background (in literature or language or wilderness) is necessary: but an interest in reading and considering spiritual, pastoral and theological issues from a new perspective and an openness to soul growth.


Announcing Winter 2009 Retreats

• Knitting Together :: January 15-18
  For many knitting is meditation.  Novice or expert, together we will knit and contemplate knitting our lives, our wounds, and our inner selves.
• Exploring Meditation :: January 22-25
  Some of the oldest roots of meditation are found within the Christian meditation/mystical traditions going back to the third century. We learn about, experiment with, and find ways to incorporate these into our daily practice.
• Build Your Own Prayer Book :: January 29- February 1 
  As we remember poems, and images that we’ve found comforting and inspiring, we will also mine a number of traditions—scripture, meditation tools, poetry--to make our own personal prayer books to enrich our spiritual lives. 
  (Materials fee for hand crafted paper and binding materials: $40)
• A Good Death :: February 2-6
  Just in time for Lent! Our forebears believed that intentionality in this life was based on a firm awareness of human mortality. We will enrich our lives by examining death in fiction, poetry, memoir and film.
• Bread of Life :: February 12-15
  As we stir, proof, knead, and shape loaves, we will reflect on the stirrings, bubblings, pummelings of our lives.

• Walking with Mary Magdalene :: February 19-22
  The New Testament offers role models of courageous, creative women, and in this retreat we will explore their lives in scripture and consider how our lives parallel and can be inspired by theirs.
• Dogged! :: February 26-29
  What would it be like if we believed God loved us as much as Dog?  Consider the metaphor alongside your other god images.  (Based on Dogspell: The Gospel According to Dog by Mary Ellen Ashcroft).

Each course will include some readings to be completed before the course begins.

Maximum class size is 10.

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