On Tuesday night, members and friends of the Kirkridge residential community held a vigil for a ceasefire in Israel/Palestine in downtown Stroudsburg, PA. We will vigil every Tuesday night at 4:30pm, and all who long for a ceasefire are welcome to join us. It is good to be together in this time. Our hearts are […]
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By Nichola Torbett “Why didn’t I do something sooner?” That was the question I kept asking myself when the racial healing retreat here at Kirkridge ruptured last week. It was almost but not quite the right question. The rupture, as it turned out, was the precursor to real intimacy and a way forward that is
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By Joyce Hollyday It was a night of nature at her height of magnificence—and depth of ferocity. On August 30, the intentional community at Kirkridge gathered on the ridge with a panoramic eastern view of the Delaware River Valley, for a Once-in-a-Blue-Moon Party. Cedar and Isaac, our youngest members, hung a colorful welcome poster and
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May 3rd – 11th, 2024: Guided by Walking Awake’s Denise Crawn (former Columcille Board Member and Kirkridge employee) and her husband Nick Prance (former Isle of Iona resident). Dear Friends of Columcille Megalith Park, Kirkridge Retreat Center and Walking Awake: If you have a love of Celtic Spirituality and a curiosity about the connections between
from Joyce Hollyday When Lydia was discerning her call to Kirkridge, she spun a vision that included a residential community. It was captured in a poem now on the website and published in Riverwise magazine. She saw… Beloveds who live on this land and lean into a vocation of hospitality. Sharing rhythms of work, spirituality,
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Today, in a spirit of humility, we at Kirkridge mark Juneteenth, a national holiday celebrating the end of an institution that should never have existed and that ended, for far too many, long after the Emancipation Proclamation. There are those who say it never ended. We have far to go until we see racial justice in
When I was nine or ten, I wanted to turn the five acres of woods where I had been born, and where my dad still lived, into a place where anyone could come and be in relationship with the land. I didn’t have a name for what I envisioned—I didn’t know about retreat centers then—but
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I dream of a resting place. Systems are crumbling. The powers are wreaking havoc. The climate is in crisis. It is enough to make you weep. Enough to make you scream. It is enough for bodies to fall down in exhaustion. Fall down here. Rest here. Let this be a place where we can breathe,
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Dear Kirkridge community, In these early days of transition, the work is so much about getting to know one another. I am loving meeting people and listening to the stories that draw you to this land again and again. And you all are getting to know me and learning my own story on this land
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Then the delight, when your courage kindled, and out you stepped onto new ground,… awaken your spirit to adventure; hold nothing back, learn to find ease in risk. – For a New Beginning, by John O’Donohue Dear Kirkridge community, As I stepped into Turning Point on my first day, I could feel the
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