By Rev. Lynice Pinkard “I will call them beloved, who were not beloved.” –Romans 9:25b, quoted in the epigraph to Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved If there is a hierarchy of belovedness in the United States–and there is–then Black queer and transgender people are surely near the bottom of it. In 2023, according to the Human […]
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Click here to register for this event; you will be sent the Zoom link to attend. Over and over again, we hear that this place has saved the lives of LGBTQ+ people. Join us online for an evening of celebration for all the LGBTQ work that has happened on this mountain over the past 82
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Position: Part-Time Caretaker/Maintenance Person About Kirkridge Kirkridge is located on 217 acres of land (including 107 acres protected by permanent land easement through The Nature Conservancy.) This is the ancestral land of the Lenni Lenape people. We can host approximately 100 people on campus in double occupancy rooms in four separate meeting/dining and housing locations
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Position: Director of Finance About Kirkridge 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 focused work. Perched on the Kittatinny Ridge in the Pocono
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At our September Wild Church, held at the far side of the tarn, we explored what this late-summer time of “going to seed” has to say to our own reckoning with mortality and purpose. What if the end of our life is to become a good meal for someone else? Or to die into new
Friends, Daniel Berrigan loved Kirkridge. He loved the windows and the vistas, the way nature called to him to look out. He loved the quiet corners that beckoned him to look in. He loved the joy filled gatherings, yearly traditions and improbable friendships that invited him to look up. He loved the long history– that
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I am writing this as a white person who sometimes gets stuck in my efforts to speak up about racism, cede control, pass the mic, and/or take action to dismantle white supremacy. If, as you read this, it feels like I’m pointing a finger at you, please know there are four fingers pointing back at
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Sometimes the confrontation between love and desecration is so intense that, according to scripture, even the stones will cry out. This is such a time. As we publish this, 1.4 million Palestinian refugees are camping out, without adequate food or water, in Rafah as a US-backed Israel prepares to attack the city. We are loathe
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