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...
CONTINUE 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...
CONTINUEHow 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...
CONTINUEThe 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...
CONTINUEJoyfully, 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...
CONTINUEStonington 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...
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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...
CONTINUEStonington 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...
CONTINUEStonington 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...
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