May Retreat Rescheduled
After some consideration of the poor turnout we had for our Lenten retreats, we’ve decided to postpone the May “Easter Presence” retreat until Advent (don’t worry, we’ll rename it appropriately to avoid confusion). Stay tuned.
May Retreat Rescheduled
Sacrament, Story and Sacred Land: An Episcopal Pilgrimage in Israel by Jason Oden
Sacred journeys bring transformation. We return home indelibly affected by the experiences of the journey. After I returned home from my first pilgrimage to the Holy Land, I experienced Scripture in an entirely new way. While I was traveling the land of the Bible, walking past the valley of Gehinnom (Hell), exploring the maze-like alleys […]
Sacrament, Story and Sacred Land: An Episcopal Pilgrimage in Israel by Jason Oden
Find a Spiritual Director
Spiritual Direction is a way of offering companionship to people who are seeking God and a greater sense of themselves. It is non-judgmental and generous, and always trusts that the seeker knows more about their own life, thoughts, and longings than the director does. The director’s role is to listen carefully, invite the presence of […]
Find a Spiritual Director
Midwives – A Reflection from Karl Stevens
Our own Karl Stevens, continues to blog on his website Prayerbook Art, where you can purchase his amazing art as well! His latest post is called “Midwives” and is a beautiful reflection on the work of the midwives in the Book of Exodus, which we are reading this year for our diocesan “Big Read” and […]
Midwives – A Reflection from Karl Stevens
Finding Balance: A Campus Ministry Retreat
How do you find balance in your life between the demands of school, home, work, friends and family? The Campus Ministry Collaborative will explore this question during its third annual retreat, to be held on the weekend of October 21-23, 2016 in Columbus. To register, fill out the form below.
Finding Balance: A Campus Ministry Retreat
How can we respond to the climate change crisis from disciplines that aren’t in the sciences?
Climate change is both a wicked problem and a grand challenge. These are OSU Dance Professor Norah Zuniga Shaw’s words, and, as she pointed out to the Ministerium a few weeks ago, most people don’t feel personally equipped to do anything about wicked problems and grand challenges. We all know that climate change is a […]
How can we respond to the climate change crisis from disciplines that aren’t in the sciences?
Does God play dice with the universe?
The study of physics has had an indelible effect on human affairs and philosophical thinking. The 20th century was no exception as physics experienced two revolutions: Einstein’s theory of relativity and the revolution in our understanding of atoms and other elementary particles. This latter topic is usually called quantum mechanics and the subject is the […]
Does God play dice with the universe?
Reflection on Ferguson
by Katharin Blodgett I grew up in a pretty diverse area in an Indianapolis suburb. But it wasn’t until I was 24 years old that I actually started grasping the truth, history, and scope of everything that had happened and was still happening in 2015. I worked for a summer with a racially diverse staff in […]
Reflection on Ferguson
Sing to the Lord a New Song! A Reflection on the Province V Gathering in Chicago
by Charlie Meszaros Recently, I attended the Prov V Young Adult Retreat in Chicago as both a former and potential future college student, and as a friend of Dr. Bob Padberg and Dr. Ellen O’Shaugnessy. The theme was “Sing to the Lord a New Song”, something that very much interested me, as I am somewhat […]
Sing to the Lord a New Song! A Reflection on the Province V Gathering in Chicago
There has to be a Better Way
by Katie Guy Our team from urban Columbus Ohio arrived in Dilley and made several turns down dusty roads and into the ranch that the CARA staff lives and works out of when they are not working out of the visitation trailer of the Dilley Detention Center. It became clear very quickly that this was […]
There has to be a Better Way