Belonging: Meanings and Implications
In three experiential sessions, we’ll explore the layers of meaning the word belonging evokes. Ted Bowman will facilitate the sessions, using prompts, guided discussions, and invited guest poets and singers.
Elizabeth Gilbert Reads from Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
Come hear Gilbert draw on her own generative process to share her wisdom and unique perspective about creativity. Whether you hope to write a book, make art, or simply live more expansively in the world, she offers powerful insights into the mysterious nature of inspiration as well as the attitudes, approaches, and habits that support a creative life.
Darwin and The God of Love: Is God’s Charity Broad Enough for Bears?
Come engage with scholar and former science teacher Elizabeth Johnson, Professor of Theology at Fordham University. Drawing from her book, Ask the Beasts: Darwin and the God of Love, she probes the meaning of creation in order to invigorate ethical behavior that cares for plants and animals with a passion integral to faith’s passion for the living God.
Abounding in Spirit: Fall 2015 Hedgerow
Among wise, creative, and inspiring theologians today, Elizabeth Johnson and Diana L. Hayes stand out. Both will be featured in the Hedgerow Seminar and through their most recent books. They will take us to the heart of issues challenging our faith today: our treatment of the natural world, and the poverty and prejudice embedded in U.S. social structures.
The Red Sea Band: Quilted Contemporary Icon Exhibit
Using image, fabric and handquilting, these icons tell the stories of women of the Bible, members of Janet Hagberg’s imaginary “Red Sea Band.” Reflection questions allow the viewer to make personal connections with the women.
The Art of He Qi
He Qi’s art is a fusion of many traditions. In his works, one can find traces of medieval and Renaissance art, as well as the traditional Chinese crafts of paper cutting and weaving and hints of surrealism. Biblical events, themes, and images permeate most of Dr. He Qi’s paintings. His art brings a freshness of vision to old familiar stories and a reminder that God’s promises are both enduring and universal.
Seeking the Sacred Thread with Barbara Brown Taylor and John Philip Newell
These rich days refreshed our souls and equipped us for a fresh articulation of God’s re-birthing.Barbara Brown Taylor and John Philip Newell, both treasured for their ability to illuminate with clarity and grace the questions and hopes we carry, weaved together sacred threads of the Christian household and other wisdom traditions as participants focused on the healing of God’s people and all creation.
Awakening to the Stories in the Land
Come awaken to these stories, and hear them told while walking the places where they reside, accompanied by a Mohican-American, a Lakota-American, and a Euro-American.
Two Events with Christian Wiman
Christian Wiman was with Wisdom Ways for two days reading passages from his book My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer and engaging in a discussion with writers seeking to weave their spiritual walk into their work.
Fly While You Still Have Wings: A Mini-Retreat with Joyce Rupp
This retreat was based on Joyce Rupp’s latest book, Fly While You Still Have Wings. Joyce spoke about some of the topics in this memoir of her resilient mother’s aging and dying process: ancestral grief, living with regrets, letting go, the aging process, and the gift of faith as a source of strength in times of significant transition. The mini-retreat included communal prayer, a presentation by Joyce, and a group response.