Kirkridge Retreat Center is looking for a friendly, hospitable team member to join our kitchen staff. Located on the homelands of the Lenape people, Kirkridge Retreat and Study Center has offered groups and individuals a time and space apart for more than 80 years–time for rest, for celebration, for reflection, for social justice organizing, for […]
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A guest post from Cathy Campanaro I have wanted to travel to Iona for a long time, and when I saw this pilgrimage advertised, weaving the connections of two organizations that are near and dear to my heart, I knew that I had to go! Kirkridge and Columcille have long been places of community, connection
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Some notes on interdependence from Nichola Torbett, Director of Political Education and Organizing Perhaps it has been hard for you, as it has for me, to wade through all the nationalism of this holiday weekend, compounded by the 250th anniversary celebrations. Some of us counter the nationalism of Independence Day by celebrating Interdependence Day, instead.
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Sisterly Retreat 2012 on the deck at Nelson Lodge Dear friends, It feels odd to remember that when I applied for this job over four years ago, I didn’t know the queer history that was nestled into this ridge. I had grown up on this mountain, returning year after year to climb the stones and
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A few weeks ago we had a brush fire back in our woods. It was between Old Mag Road and the trail to the garden, the place below the electrical lines that is often covered in ferns. The fire was moving fast, but the volunteer fire departments from multiple townships arrived seemingly just as quickly.
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by Nichola Torbett, Associate Director of Kirkridge Retreat & Study Center You with the frostbitten hands, You, proffering trail mix and protein bars, You, building street altars, You, carrying bottled water and saline, You with the whistles, You, with a trunk full of candles— Have vigil, will travel— You, with a trunk full of groceries,
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Kirkridge Retreat Center is looking for a local chef to create meals for our programs and retreats. Located on the homelands of the Lenape people, Kirkridge Retreat and Study Center has offered groups and individuals a time and space apart for more than 80 years–time for rest, for celebration, for reflection, for social justice organizing,
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The following are Kirkridge-community-member Bill Wylie-Kellermann’s words at a press conference on Tuesday, August 26, 2025. I confess that for a press conference I find myself at a loss for words. So let me begin by reading something of a journal entry from the beginning of this fast… “my friend Hassan, 84, remembers in his
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by Bill Wylie-Kellermann When I was a student at Union Seminary in New York, Abraham Heschel taught at Jewish Theological Seminary across the street. Though he died within my first year, the author of The Prophets, was notorious, it was said, for being the professor who actually believed in God. Something related might be said
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by Nichola Torbett with gratitude to Bayo Akomolafe, 2024 retreat leader at Kirkridge The following is the transcript of a talk I gave at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of the Poconos on Sunday, January 26, 2025. There is a particular type of dream I’ve had just a few times in my life, and every time
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