Spring 2013 Workshops
The Refuge of Awakening: A Seven-Day Mindfulness Meditation Retreat
Apr 21 - 28, 2013 Sun – Sun (7 nights)
Mary Grace Orr, assisted by Anne Briggs
This retreat will be a time of silence, with periods of sitting and walking practice, opportunities to talk about your own practice, and formal presentations.
The Nonviolent Atonement
May 10 - 12, 2013 Fri – Sun (2 nights)
Michael and Lorri Hardin
Using the work of René Girard, Michael Hardin has articulated a nonviolent paradigm for the atonement. Explore questions such as: Is God violent? Was Jesus’s death a demonstration of God’s love?
Return to Communitas, the Love-Awakened Community
May 17 - 19, 2013 Fri – Sun (2 nights)
Ken and Katharine Jacobsen
Early Christian communities and early Quaker communities were socially and culturally diverse groups of people, surprisingly knit together by the power of divine Love into communitas – new and Love-awakened relationship with one another and with the world
Come Away and Rest Awhile
May 31 - Jun 2, 2013 Fri – Sun (2 nights)
John Calvi
Relax your mind and body, renew your spiritual connection, and gather a deeper sense of your own goodness and wholeness in this gently paced retreat.
Writing the Children’s Book You Hold in Your Heart
June 9 - 13, 2013 Sun - Thur (4 nights)
Becky Birtha
Is there a children’s book or story you’ve longed to write, perhaps begun, or maybe just carried in your heart for years?