Study of American Spirituality Advisory Group Meeting
How do people in America view and practice spirituality within and outside traditional religions? How do we exercise our spirituality in American civic life and in our ongoing needs and challenges? Advisors gather to develop a study to aid in understanding the language of religion, faith, and spirituality and the role it plays in daily life in America.
Bookends: Ending and Beginning with Compassion
This retreat is now full. Please contact us (gilchrist@fetzer.org) if you would like to be added to a wait list.
Come to GilChrist for an end-of-the-year retreat focused on parting well with 2018 and setting intentions for 2019, with an eye toward one’s true nature. Using a combination of loving kindness meditation, sharing in community, and other contemplative activities, we will clarify thoughts and focus intentions.
January read, Tenth of December by George Saunders
Join us in contemplating America's past and possibilities through classic and contemporary literary voices. The We the People Book Club is a year-long program designed to give you an opportunity to strengthen your vision of democracy and your connections with others.
We affirm two principles. First, reading itself is a spiritual practice. Second, when this inner work inspires engagement with our neighbors and communities—as happens in book clubs—it becomes deeply democratic.
February read, Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Join us in contemplating America's past and possibilities through classic and contemporary literary voices. The We the People Book Club is a year-long program designed to give you an opportunity to strengthen your vision of democracy and your connections with others.
We affirm two principles. First, reading itself is a spiritual practice. Second, when this inner work inspires engagement with our neighbors and communities—as happens in book clubs—it becomes deeply democratic.
March read, Puddnhead Wilson by Mark Twain
Explore the themes of identity, race, nobility, and violence in this guide to Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson. Part of the We the People Book Club, a year-long program contemplating America’s past and possibilities, this guide was created for individual and group use.
April read, The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin and Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Join us in contemplating America's past and possibilities through classic and contemporary literary voices. The We the People Book Club is a year-long program designed to give you an opportunity to strengthen your vision of democracy and your connections with others.
We affirm two principles. First, reading itself is a spiritual practice. Second, when this inner work inspires engagement with our neighbors and communities—as happens in book clubs—it becomes deeply democratic.
May read, Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silkko
Join us in contemplating America's past and possibilities through classic and contemporary literary voices. The We the People Book Club is a year-long program designed to give you an opportunity to strengthen your vision of democracy and your connections with others.
We affirm two principles. First, reading itself is a spiritual practice. Second, when this inner work inspires engagement with our neighbors and communities—as happens in book clubs—it becomes deeply democratic.
June read, The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Join us in contemplating America's past and possibilities through classic and contemporary literary voices. The We the People Book Club is a year-long program designed to give you an opportunity to strengthen your vision of democracy and your connections with others.
We affirm two principles. First, reading itself is a spiritual practice. Second, when this inner work inspires engagement with our neighbors and communities—as happens in book clubs—it becomes deeply democratic.
July read, The Partly-Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell
Join us in contemplating America's past and possibilities through classic and contemporary literary voices. The We the People Book Club is a year-long program designed to give you an opportunity to strengthen your vision of democracy and your connections with others.
August read, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Join us in contemplating America's past and possibilities through classic and contemporary literary voices. The We the People Book Club is a year-long program designed to give you an opportunity to strengthen your vision of democracy and your connections with others. We affirm two principles. First, reading itself is a spiritual practice.