GilChrist Storytelling Session

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Our teachers in this work are numerous. I have learned so much from others' fine "translations" of the need for love in our world--epidemiologists, neuroscientists, and public health specialists, artists, clergy, and various lifelong practitioners of compassion--who carry this work into realms of our social life like schools, prisons, and law enforcement circles.

My background is deep in the humanities, and my family tree is of full Catholics (faithful and lapsed), skeptics, and librarians. I have a master's degree in literature and am drawn to volunteer with arts-related organizations and projects. 


 

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Submitted by aferguson on Wed, 08/14/2019 - 08:27

6:30-830 p.m. Tues. Aug. 20
As we anticipate the 25th anniversary of GilChrist Retreat Center in 2020, please join us for one of two storytelling and story-gathering sessions this summer! Come prepared to share a 5-7 minute story about your time at GilChrist or just listen. Light refreshments will be available.

Please RSVP by e-mail (gilchrist@fetzer.org) or phone (269-244-1130).

The next session will be held on Thursday, September 12 from 3:00-5:00pm.

GilChrist Storytelling Session

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If you make a reservation for a retreat at GilChrist, you will most likely see my name on the email signature, talk with me on the phone, or see my face when you arrive. I’ve always delighted in being able to connect people with the natural world in ways that allow them to experience their environment deeply and meaningfully. My undergraduate degree in psychology and environmental studies paved the way for this beautiful integration of two passions of mine. The principles of permaculture – earth care, people care, and fair share – also shape my approach to my work. Making rest and retreat more accessible for all is something I try to work toward.

I also do a lot of the behind-the-scenes logistics and administrative work at GilChrist: working with group retreat facilitators, handling billing, managing social media, keeping the website up to date, cataloging the library, and also pitching in with cabin cleaning and feeding the goats.

When I’m not at work, you can find me volunteering in my Three Rivers community, cooking and baking in my kitchen, taking in thought-provoking television and movies with my husband, or daydreaming about grand garden plans for my backyard.

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Submitted by dhaak on Tue, 08/06/2019 - 15:40

As we anticipate the 25th anniversary of GilChrist Retreat Center in 2020, please join us for one of two storytelling and story-gathering sessions this summer! Come prepared to share a 5-7 minute story about your time at GilChrist or just listen. Light refreshments will be available.

Please RSVP by e-mail (gilchrist@fetzer.org) or phone (269-244-1130).

 

Tour and Talk: Broadcast, Baseball and the Spiritual Quest of John Fetzer

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I am part of a web of writers, editors, videographers, communicators, and ambassadors who help shine a light on how we can all contribute to a loving world. For me this comes through in three simple words: reveal, serve, and inspire. It means researching, listening, sleuthing, writing, connecting, and conspiring for good. 

Our teachers in this work are numerous. I have learned so much from others' fine "translations" of the need for love in our world--epidemiologists, neuroscientists, and public health specialists, artists, clergy, and various lifelong practitioners of compassion--who carry this work into realms of our social life like schools, prisons, and law enforcement circles.

My background is deep in the humanities, and my family tree is of full Catholics (faithful and lapsed), skeptics, and librarians. I have a master's degree in literature and am drawn to volunteer with arts-related organizations and projects. 


 

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Submitted by aferguson on Wed, 05/08/2019 - 10:55

Learn about broadcast pioneer and Detroit Tigers owner John Fetzer and the spiritual movements of the 20th century that shaped his life. Author and professor of American Religious History, Dr. Brian Wilson will share from his new biography, John E.

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I am part of a web of writers, editors, videographers, communicators, and ambassadors who help shine a light on how we can all contribute to a loving world. For me this comes through in three simple words: reveal, serve, and inspire. It means researching, listening, sleuthing, writing, connecting, and conspiring for good. 

Our teachers in this work are numerous. I have learned so much from others' fine "translations" of the need for love in our world--epidemiologists, neuroscientists, and public health specialists, artists, clergy, and various lifelong practitioners of compassion--who carry this work into realms of our social life like schools, prisons, and law enforcement circles.

My background is deep in the humanities, and my family tree is of full Catholics (faithful and lapsed), skeptics, and librarians. I have a master's degree in literature and am drawn to volunteer with arts-related organizations and projects. 


 

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Edith Wharton on spreading light
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Submitted by aferguson on Fri, 04/19/2019 - 10:22

Poet, writer, and Soto Zen priest Norman Fisher discusses his new book, The World Could Be Otherwise: Imagination and the Bodhisattva Path.

Festival of Faiths

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I am part of a web of writers, editors, videographers, communicators, and ambassadors who help shine a light on how we can all contribute to a loving world. For me this comes through in three simple words: reveal, serve, and inspire. It means researching, listening, sleuthing, writing, connecting, and conspiring for good. 

Our teachers in this work are numerous. I have learned so much from others' fine "translations" of the need for love in our world--epidemiologists, neuroscientists, and public health specialists, artists, clergy, and various lifelong practitioners of compassion--who carry this work into realms of our social life like schools, prisons, and law enforcement circles.

My background is deep in the humanities, and my family tree is of full Catholics (faithful and lapsed), skeptics, and librarians. I have a master's degree in literature and am drawn to volunteer with arts-related organizations and projects. 


 

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Edith Wharton on spreading light
Multidimensional Measurement of Religiousness/Spirituality for Use in Health Research
Where Science, Spirituality, and Storytelling Meet: Introducing the Study of Spirituality in America
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“We are all born with 200 bad poems in us.”  —Billy Collins

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Internal Communications Officer
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Selections from the We the People Book Club.
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DSE: Spiritually touched by the beauty of creation
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Programs
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aferguson@fetzer.org
Submitted by aferguson on Thu, 03/21/2019 - 14:15

The 2019 festival will explore wisdom present at the intersection of faith and science; ancient and modern questions at the heart of human existence; and space where reason and revelation co-exist.

Dialogue, music, poetry, film, and art with spiritual leaders, teachers, and practitioners.

Moving Art Season 3 Premiere

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Experience nature’s art as filmmaker Louis Schwartzberg highlights the beauty that lurks in oceans, forests, deserts, and flowers. The Fetzer Institute is a sponsor of Season 3 this original Netflix series

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