Online Programs

Click this link to register Join Christians for a Free Palestine, Mennonite Action, Kirkridge Retreat and Study Center, and our partners for a weekly 30 minute Zoom call for shared action for a Free Palestine and spiritual practice rooted in the Christian tradition. As Israel’s U.S.-funded genocide has escalated, including forcibly starving millions of Palestinians in Gaza, this moment calls for our sustained commitment to act. We can do so much more together than we can do alone. Our time together will include a short program of check-in, prayer, and a collective digital action. No matter where you live, your…

Years ago, following on a decade of terrible violence, the poet W. B. Yeats asked “What rough beast, its hour come round at last/ Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?” This year, amidst so much state-sponsored violence and organized neglect, we might likewise ask what Advent could possibly mean? What uncanny birth can we possibly be waiting for? What hope might it offer? And most importantly, how do we prepare to receive this strange newness? Three times during Advent, we will gather on zoom to explore the demanding promise of this season and to cultivate the "disciplines of readiness" needed…

December 2025 Spirit of the Earth Book Group Meeting Join us online for our book group! This will be a great opportunity for heartfelt, stimulating conversation and for building community. This month, December 15, @ 6:30 pm ET, the book is TBA. Email us for details kirkridge@kirkridge.org. To attend online by zoom, please register in advance here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEqfuutqzsrGtYuU5bOqRspIV75P7E5-sdm. Once you have registered once, the link you receive will enable you to attend any month through 2025. Here's more information about the book group: Each month, we will read and discuss a book with some emphasis on what we can learn…

Apocalypse means “revelation.” Certainly we are living through apocalyptic times, but what exactly is being revealed?   If the systems of US empire are collapsing, and it seems they are, what will we build in the gaps that empire leaves behind? How will we avoid replicating harmful ways, when those are all many of us have known?   With this book discussion series, we’ll look for wisdom in books. Chosen in conversation with folks whose lives they’ve changed, these books have the power to upend our assumptions, spark our imaginations, and point us toward possible liberatory futures.    These will…

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/6lkJZM7NS9mFihhN98CNTA  Six weekly sessions on Wednesdays, noon-1:30pm ET, with this next session running January 14-February 18 and focusing on a rigorous practice of relational somatics and collective healing, to support us to resist fascism and honor life, following the arc of Eliana Rubin’s recently published book, Taking the State Out of the Body: A Guide To Embodied Resistance to Zionism. Description Looking for a place to deepen your antiracist practice? For a committed, kind community of support and accountability for taking action to dismantle white supremacy? You are in the right place! Our next white antiracist practice series…

The memory of the long civil rights movement often celebrates white Christians who drew on their religious faith to support Black demands for racial justice. However, the visions and actions of these leaders and their organizations often conflicted with those of Black leadership. While Black activists fought for a broad vision of freedom, white allies focused more narrowly on cultivating interracial friendship, marching in parallel to Black movement leaders rather than alongside them.   Damned Whiteness: How White Christians Failed the Black Freedom Movement offers an unflinching history of white-led efforts at interracial organizing gone astray. Considering the examples of…

Apocalypse means “revelation.” Certainly we are living through apocalyptic times, but what exactly is being revealed?   If the systems of US empire are collapsing, and it seems they are, what will we build in the gaps that empire leaves behind? How will we avoid replicating harmful ways, when those are all many of us have known?   With this book discussion series, we’ll look for wisdom in books. Chosen in conversation with folks whose lives they’ve changed, these books have the power to upend our assumptions, spark our imaginations, and point us toward possible liberatory futures.    These will…

Apocalypse means “revelation.” Certainly we are living through apocalyptic times, but what exactly is being revealed?   If the systems of US empire are collapsing, and it seems they are, what will we build in the gaps that empire leaves behind? How will we avoid replicating harmful ways, when those are all many of us have known?   With this book discussion series, we’ll look for wisdom in books. Chosen in conversation with folks whose lives they’ve changed, these books have the power to upend our assumptions, spark our imaginations, and point us toward possible liberatory futures.    These will…

Apocalypse means “revelation.” Certainly we are living through apocalyptic times, but what exactly is being revealed?   If the systems of US empire are collapsing, and it seems they are, what will we build in the gaps that empire leaves behind? How will we avoid replicating harmful ways, when those are all many of us have known?   With this book discussion series, we’ll look for wisdom in books. Chosen in conversation with folks whose lives they’ve changed, these books have the power to upend our assumptions, spark our imaginations, and point us toward possible liberatory futures.    These will…

Apocalypse means “revelation.” Certainly we are living through apocalyptic times, but what exactly is being revealed?   If the systems of US empire are collapsing, and it seems they are, what will we build in the gaps that empire leaves behind? How will we avoid replicating harmful ways, when those are all many of us have known?   With this book discussion series, we’ll look for wisdom in books. Chosen in conversation with folks whose lives they’ve changed, these books have the power to upend our assumptions, spark our imaginations, and point us toward possible liberatory futures.    These will…

Apocalypse means “revelation.” Certainly we are living through apocalyptic times, but what exactly is being revealed?   If the systems of US empire are collapsing, and it seems they are, what will we build in the gaps that empire leaves behind? How will we avoid replicating harmful ways, when those are all many of us have known?   With this book discussion series, we’ll look for wisdom in books. Chosen in conversation with folks whose lives they’ve changed, these books have the power to upend our assumptions, spark our imaginations, and point us toward possible liberatory futures.    These will…

Apocalypse means “revelation.” Certainly we are living through apocalyptic times, but what exactly is being revealed?   If the systems of US empire are collapsing, and it seems they are, what will we build in the gaps that empire leaves behind? How will we avoid replicating harmful ways, when those are all many of us have known?   With this book discussion series, we’ll look for wisdom in books. Chosen in conversation with folks whose lives they’ve changed, these books have the power to upend our assumptions, spark our imaginations, and point us toward possible liberatory futures.    These will…

Apocalypse means “revelation.” Certainly we are living through apocalyptic times, but what exactly is being revealed?   If the systems of US empire are collapsing, and it seems they are, what will we build in the gaps that empire leaves behind? How will we avoid replicating harmful ways, when those are all many of us have known?   With this book discussion series, we’ll look for wisdom in books. Chosen in conversation with folks whose lives they’ve changed, these books have the power to upend our assumptions, spark our imaginations, and point us toward possible liberatory futures.    These will…

Apocalypse means “revelation.” Certainly we are living through apocalyptic times, but what exactly is being revealed?   If the systems of US empire are collapsing, and it seems they are, what will we build in the gaps that empire leaves behind? How will we avoid replicating harmful ways, when those are all many of us have known?   With this book discussion series, we’ll look for wisdom in books. Chosen in conversation with folks whose lives they’ve changed, these books have the power to upend our assumptions, spark our imaginations, and point us toward possible liberatory futures.    These will…

Apocalypse means “revelation.” Certainly we are living through apocalyptic times, but what exactly is being revealed?   If the systems of US empire are collapsing, and it seems they are, what will we build in the gaps that empire leaves behind? How will we avoid replicating harmful ways, when those are all many of us have known?   With this book discussion series, we’ll look for wisdom in books. Chosen in conversation with folks whose lives they’ve changed, these books have the power to upend our assumptions, spark our imaginations, and point us toward possible liberatory futures.    These will…

Apocalypse means “revelation.” Certainly we are living through apocalyptic times, but what exactly is being revealed?   If the systems of US empire are collapsing, and it seems they are, what will we build in the gaps that empire leaves behind? How will we avoid replicating harmful ways, when those are all many of us have known?   With this book discussion series, we’ll look for wisdom in books. Chosen in conversation with folks whose lives they’ve changed, these books have the power to upend our assumptions, spark our imaginations, and point us toward possible liberatory futures.    These will…