What does Beloved Community look like? On our pilgrimage to Israel this fall, Gary, our guide, a devout Jewish man, put on his tefellin as we were sitting amidst the stones of the Temple and he shared stories about his children’s bar mitzvahs and the meaning of his religious practices. We had just wandered around […]
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We are officially announcing our newest experiment! We are inviting you to join us in what we are calling Praxis School of Mission. The idea for this emerged during our pilgrimage to England last year as we noticed a series of learning hubs spring up around England to explore fresh expressions of church. We were […]
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By Anna Berger No one in the world knows you’re here, Atop this ridge with your rose-flushed face and the dirt smudges up and down your faintly aching legs, you are alone. But God is no one because God is the One and the world is God’s and there’s a whisper of something else in […]
Conversations matter. Powerful conversations lead to wise action. The Art of Hosting is a 2.5 day experiential learning retreat for leaders, learners, facilitators and anyone in organizations and communities wanting to create more meaningful dialogue and step more fully into participatory leadership, using several methodologies. Join Tom Brackett, Cheri Leonard, Jane Gerdsen and a remarkable […]
Art as a Spiritual Connection is offering an Advent Retreat using Soul Collage®! Begin the season of Light by setting your intentions and exploring contemporary insights into the Incarnation process, while still honoring traditional incarnation theology. We will utilize images to collage new understandings about the Incarnation process and how it manifests in our lives. […]
I’m surrounded by spiders. All summer it felt like everywhere I turned I saw spiders – they were in our house at camp – massive spiders scurrying in the corners and as I sat and wrote at the desk facing the fields, I saw spiders in the windows spinning enormous webs. I found spiders in […]
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I shared this wonderful illustration from The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society with the Confluence Volunteers when I was introducing them to the idea of spiritual direction. The illustration is by Carrie Bergman. The only thing it leaves out, as far as I can see, is practices of self-knowledge such as the Ignatian Examinem and one-on-one meetings […]
Aaron sits down with Lisa Andrews and Maggie Gough, both registered dietitians and all around good people, to talk food and embodied spiritual practice. Our conversation ranges from smoothies to fish fries to artificial nutrition. Listen here.
Listen here. DG, Andrea, and Aaron introduce a new theme for a series of podcasts on embodied spiritual practice. What does it look like to live our spiritual practice in our bodies? We’ll talk with practitioners of yoga, personal trainers, massage therapists, and others about how they live and incarnate spiritual practice in their lives. […]
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