by Bill Wylie-Kellermann Come morning we found her. Cedar boy crosses the road from the school bus wait To check the ant colony he watches, There the yearling deer curled beneath the white pine. Dead? No, dying of a car strike in the night Truly, our roads, all roads, and vehicles are deadly violence Plowing […]
“These are the times to grow our souls.”– Grace Lee Boggs Beloved Kirkridge community, I am feeling Grace’s words viscerally in this moment. I don’t know if I’ve experienced so clearly the way that spiritual practice and tending to our spirits feels so crucial to our survival. We stand at a truly terrifying political moment.
A Time to Grow Our Souls Read More »
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
Other Sites of Power: Inaugurating a Different World Read More »
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
Push Out Into the Deep Read More »
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
The Medicine We Carry for These Times Read More »
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,
Come: An Invocation from “The Stream Keeps Flowing” Read More »
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
Kirkridge is Hiring a Caretaker / Maintenance Person Read More »
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
Queer As In Rejecting Oppressive Social Norms Read More »
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
Once in a Blue Moon Read More »
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
Copyright © 2024 Kirkridge Retreat and Study Center • web design by macromarsh
