Laura Ruth, Author at Wisdom Waypoints

Solstice

Laura Ruth | December 22, 2018

This past weekend I spent time in a place of enormous beauty. The room was created for a group to enter into prayer and healing together for several days. I […]

Reflections After Garrison: Paradox and Practice

Laura Ruth | December 3, 2018

How is it that we sense and participate in the larger movements at work in the world? What is this paradigm shift and how are we moving with it? How […]

How Do We Stand? Stabilitas and Fidelity, Here, Now, and Glastonbury Abbey

Laura Ruth | August 6, 2018

How do we stand in ourselves in these times? What do we draw from? What do we have to give? What is our responsibility as humans, and to what? Twenty-five […]

The Meeting of Wisdom and Quaker Mysticism Revisited: On the Eve of an Offering by Quaker Teacher Marcelle Martin

Laura Ruth | April 5, 2018

In May of 2017, almost one year ago, Cynthia joined forces with Quaker singer chant creator Paulette Meier and Quaker studies author and scholar Marcelle Martin for a retreat that […]

Joyfully, Playfully, Collectively: Notes about the origins of the first-ever Cynthia Bourgeault Annual

Laura Ruth | December 2, 2017

In Cynthia’s Note to the Northeast Wisdom fundraising letter, she exclaims, “We’re Here to Make Wisdom Happen!” And Wisdom, as it is born in its unique configuration through each and […]

Stonington 2017 Part IV: Singing Praises on the Journey

Laura Ruth | November 14, 2017

Parts I and II of Stonington 2017, “Mornings With Teilhard” and “Celebrating Rhythm and Community” can be found in Growing! on the Breaking Ground page of this website. The reflections […]

Stonington 2017 Part III: The Voyage with Saint Brendan Begins

Laura Ruth | October 30, 2017

Parts I and II of Stonington 2017, “Mornings With Teilhard” and “Celebrating Rhythm and Community” can be found on Breaking Ground, where participants share their reflections on the […]

Stonington 2017 Part II: Celebrating Rhythm and Community

Laura Ruth | September 7, 2017

In Mornings with Teilhard, the first collection of reflections from the June 2017 Wisdom Ingathering in Stonington, a number of people shared their experiences of Cynthia’s morning teachings. Ultimately these […]

Stonington 2017 Part I: Mornings with Teilhard

Laura Ruth | August 22, 2017

In June of this year, a merry band descended down the steep little hills into the North Atlantic lobstering port of Stonington, Maine as it opened its arms for the […]