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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By Rev. Lynice Pinkard Sometime in the months leading up to the 2024” Spiritual Roots of Protest” retreat, retreat co-organizer Bill Wylie-Kellermann had a dream in which the words came to him: “Spiritual openings in a dead-end time.” That phrase became the topic of a panel at the retreat, and the following is Rev. Lynice
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Associate Director Nichola Torbett shared these words during the Fall Festival celebrating the LGBTQ+ work at Kirkridge. I am honored to stand in these long lineages of LGBTQ+ work here. I’m sitting in my office at Turning Point, just above Memorial garden, and I feel the ancestors stirring around me as we tell these stories
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Lacey Hunter, our new Programs and Hospitality Manager, shared this poem Sunday at the start of our Fall Festival celebrating the LGBTQ+ work at Kirkridge. Invocation Come Father/Mother/Creator, Son/Daughter/Child, Holy Spirit/Holy Flame/Holy BreathCome Flesh Created, Flesh Redeemed, Flesh SustainedCome Queer One, Gay One, Unnamed OneFluid One, Changing One, Ever-expanding OneCome Dreamer, Liberator and HealerRainbow-Maker, Riot-Shaker,
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This reflection on Romans 12: 1-6a was offered by Nichola Torbett at the June Wild Church service at Kirkridge. Today we are celebrating queer liberation, which is an embodiment of this mandate “not to be conformed” to the world as it is currently structured, to uphold the power and privileges of an elite few. Queerness
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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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