Love as Destiny and Desire
Online program Offered via Zoom. Directions sent by email to registrants., All times listed are CST. Program originating from, MN, United States“Love is our true destiny,” said Thomas Merton. “We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with one another.” We’ll move well beyond a greeting card understanding to consider love’s many faces, its many gifts and its many demands. To attend this online writing session, RSVP and a […]
Writing Our Way through Grief
Online program Offered via Zoom. Directions sent by email to registrants., All times listed are CST. Program originating from, MN, United StatesWe know that writing can have a healing power. And that grief can be an invitation into both healing and transformation. All are welcome to join this online guided writing session exploring grief’s presence in our lives and in this time, and how we might participate in its alchemy by noticing and naming it, by […]
With Eyes Wide Open: the writer as witness
Unity Church-Unitarian, Holly Ave. 732 Holly Avenue, St. Paul, MN, United StatesBeholding the world's beauty also means bearing witness to its sorrows and injustices. How do we listen with “eyes wide open,” as the poet Sam Hamill says, learning what we need to know to find our way to peace and hope and justice? NOTE: This in person guided writing session will be held at Unity […]
Hope: an orientation of the heart
Online program Offered via Zoom. Directions sent by email to registrants., All times listed are CST. Program originating from, MN, United StatesVaclav Havel wrote, from prison, that hope is not dependent on the conditions around us, but rather “is an orientation of the heart; it transcends the world that is immediately experienced, and is anchored somewhere beyond its horizons.” What does it mean to orient our heart toward hope today, when the conditions around us often […]
Trusting Change: Book Launch and Reading
Unity Church-Unitarian 733 Portland Avenue, St. PaulIn her new release, Trusting Change: Finding Our Way through Personal and Global Change, Karen Hering invites readers on the cusp of great change—which is all of us today—to explore the new possibilities emerging in our times. Whether you are living through significant personal transitions or navigating a world reshaping itself faster than ever, you’ll […]
Writing Our Way toward a New Day: the writer’s role in a time of great change
Christine Center W8303 MANN ROAD, Willard, WI, United StatesThe open page always beckons the writer into uncharted territory. What is the role of our writing, for both the writer and the wider world, in times of great change? This 5-day writing retreat invites you to explore the shifting terrain of our times as fertile ground for creativity and for discovering our way into […]
Trusting Change: The Transformative Role of Faith Communities in Liminal Times
Online program Offered via Zoom. Directions sent by email to registrants., All times listed are CST. Program originating from, MN, United StatesDrawing from her new book, Trusting Change: Finding Our Way through Personal and Global Transformation, Karen will discuss the dynamics of shifting times, and together we’ll explore how faith communities can help us participate in change to support our own transformation and that of the world. Sponsored by United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities […]