Programs & Retreats
Program Schedule
All upcoming Programs & Retreats
Below is our full upcoming program schedule of both online and on the mountain retreats.
Looking for specific retreats & programs hosted online or locally? Select below to visit their individual pages:
Picket and Pray
Open Dates
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…
Liberation Library
Open Dates
The Liberation Library at our Turning Point library is a collection of liberation-oriented books that can often be hard to find in local libraries and bookstores. Developed from our personal book collections and bridging justice-oriented secular and Christian resources, it will hopefully be a valuable resource for activists, movement leaders, pastors, and the local community. Categories of books include: Dismantling White Supremacy, Resistance, Healing Justice, Disability Justice, Queer Studies, Climate Justice, Lenape publications, Theology (especially feminist, postcolonial, and liberation theologies), Biblical studies (again, especially those from a feminist, postcolonial, and liberation perspective), Spiritual Life, and Celtic Studies We also have…
Berrigan’s Folly Organizer and Activist Respite Program
Flexible Dates
“The times are urgent; we must slow down.” –Bayo Akomolafe Are you an organizer or activist in need of rest and rejuvenation? Kirkridge Retreat Center is launching Berrigan’s Folly Organizer and Activist Respite program. We are offering no-cost week-long private retreats for movement organizers and activists in Daniel Berrigan’s Folly Cottage at Kirkridge Retreat Center. Located along the beautiful, forested Kittatinny Ridge, the one room cottage is fully furnished and has a kitchenette where residents can prepare their own meals. Deer, black bear, groundhogs, and other woodland creatures forage just outside the large windows, and on rainy evenings, the space is…
Wild Yoga
With Britt
November 12, 2025
Turning Point Meeting Room
Wild Yoga 2nd Wednesdays at 6:00pm Free community yoga Donations accepted, not required For all bodies, races, ages, genders, and faiths. BYOM - Bring Your Own Mat Registration welcome but not required. Description: Every 2nd Wednesday of the month, we come together to connect to our bodies and the true nature of our being through the movement practice of yoga. By connecting movement and breath, we calm our sympathetic nervous system. By noticing the sensations in our bodies, we bring ourselves into the present moment. This practice is made accessible to all levels of experience through various options suggested throughout…
Kirkridge / Columcille Spirit of the Earth Book Group – November
November 17, 2025
Zoom
November 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, November 17, @ 6:30 pm ET, the book is The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline. 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…
Wild Church
December 3, 2025
The Farmhouse
Let's let church go a little wild! We gather at the beautiful Kirkridge Retreat Center every month, outside, on the first Wednesday, to listen together and in solitude for the voice of the Spirit that speaks through the more-than-human world. Most gatherings involve song, prayer and/or ritual, a time of wandering in the woods and fields and among the rocks, and then a time to share what you heard, if you like (no pressure). We also occasionally incorporate advocacy for the creatures and other ways of connecting with the earth. Children are always welcome! And we have a potluck afterward…
An Unexpected Birth: Advent in the Fascist Apocalypse
With Lynice Pinkard and Nichola Torbett
December 4 - 18, 2025
Zoom
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 touch into the honesty, vulnerability, and…
Winter Craft Retreat
December 5 - 7, 2025
The Farmhouse
On these cold December nights, we will have a fire burning and hot chocolate on the stove. Bring your knitting needles, quilting squares, paint brushes, wrapping paper, or whittling knife and gather in the warmth and stillness of the season. This retreat will have no facilitator or agenda. There will be delicious food, good company, and lots of time to craft and share stories. On Sunday afternoon following the retreat, there will be a Craft Fair at Kirkridge with local artists. Retreat participants are welcome to have a table if you have crafts you would like to sell. Or stop…
Winter Craft Fair
December 7, 2025
Turning Point Building
Join us for our 1st Annual Holiday Craft Fair!! Enjoy a beautiful wintery afternoon on the scenic overlook at Turning Point at Kirkridge Retreat Center. Let’s celebrate and support our local artists. Enjoy hot chocolate, snacks, music, and the gift of community. We will have artisan vendors selling holiday gifts- from pottery to poetry books to glass nightlights to hand carved spoons to photography from our local community. Interested in hosting a vendor booth? Fill out a vendor registration form. Vendor list coming soon!
Winter Craft Fair Vendor Registration
December 7, 2025
Turning Point Building
We are excited to be hosting our 1st Annual Holiday Craft Fair at Kirkridge. We hope that this will be a beautiful, wintery gathering on the mountain. It will be a time for community, for celebrating artists, and for encouraging holiday shopping to come from our local craft-makers. We are looking for vendors! Do you have crafts you want to sell? We are looking for weavers and potters and glassmakers and knitters and painters and photographers and medicine makers… and anything else you can dream up! We would love to have you join this circle of artisans. We are asking…
Wild Yoga
With Britt
December 10, 2025
Turning Point Meeting Room
Wild Yoga 2nd Wednesdays at 6:00pm Free community yoga Donations accepted, not required For all bodies, races, ages, genders, and faiths. BYOM - Bring Your Own Mat Registration welcome but not required. Description: Every 2nd Wednesday of the month, we come together to connect to our bodies and the true nature of our being through the movement practice of yoga. By connecting movement and breath, we calm our sympathetic nervous system. By noticing the sensations in our bodies, we bring ourselves into the present moment. This practice is made accessible to all levels of experience through various options suggested throughout…
Keening Workshop
With Annie Wilson
December 13, 2025
The Farmhouse
Keening was a practice of communal grieving practiced at wakes and funerals in the British Isles for thousands of years, until its erasure over the course of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Keening was led by elder women, often midwives: those who tended to the threshold between life and death. In the first part of the workshop, we will first learn about: The history of keening (in Irish: caoineadh) in the British Isles throughout history, The musical structure of keening and its function in the context of a wake, How the practice keening was erased by the same…
LGBTQ Social Events – December
December 14, 2025
The Farmhouse
Join us as we build local LGBTQ+ community! Our activities vary from month to month and can be found on our Facebook and Instagram pages, but unless otherwise specified, we gather at 7pm near the Farmhouse or Barn at 2281 Fox Gap Road, Bangor, PA 18013. Hope to meet you soon!
Kirkridge / Columcille Spirit of the Earth Book Group – December
December 15, 2025
Zoom
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…
Apocalyptic Reading Group – January
January 4, 2026
Zoom
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…
White Antiracist Practice Group Series 11 (Somatic Antifascist Edition)
With Nicole Bauman
January 14 - February 18, 2026
Zoom
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 will run for…
One year of bird omens: a winter writing retreat
With Lydia Wylie-Kellermann and Lacey Hunter
January 16 - 18, 2026
The Farmhouse
Join us for a cozy weekend in the mountains to focus on your writing life. Trust that there will be roaring fires, snowy trails, hot chocolate, candlelight, good food, and lots of quiet. We will offer some brief prompts and rituals throughout the days to nudge the imagination and then offer spacious hours for your own writing practice. This retreat is for word-lovers, storytellers, and writers in the most expansive sense of the word. Bring a project you are working on or blank pages that have been calling to you. One year ago as we prepared for the inauguration, we…
A Weekend Celebrating The Many Blessings of Brigid and Imbolc
With Denise Crawn
January 30 - February 1, 2026
The Farmhouse
On the Celtic Wheel of the Year, Imbolc marks the midway point between winter solstice and spring equinox. With its arrival we find ourselves at a threshold in Nature. Here in the northern hemisphere, as we continue our annual cyclical spiral away from the cold, dark months of winter towards the returning light and warmth of spring, promises of renewal and new life are beginning to stir and emerge. Across the centuries Brigid has been beloved and revered as Saint and Goddess. Her stories have woven their way through the Celtic Lands and into the hearts of many across the…
Apocalyptic Reading Group – February
February 1, 2026
Zoom
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…
Damned Whiteness: How White Christian Allies Failed the Black Freedom Movement and How We Can Do Better
With David Evans
February 27 - March 1, 2026
Turning Point
The phrase “damned whiteness” comes from a 1961 poem by white Christian missionary Ralph Templin, who recognized his own whiteness as a “frightening disease” that kept him from showing up in true solidarity with Black freedom fighters. In a new book that takes Templin’s phrase as its title, historian David F. Evans explores how white Christian allies failed the Black Freedom Movement. Evans focuses his study on Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement; Clarence Jordan, founder of Koinonia Farm; and Ralph Templin, co-founder of the Harlem Ashram and director of the nonviolent School for Living, identifying some common…
Apocalyptic Reading Group – March
March 1, 2026
Zoom
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…
Trans Sanctuary
With Kerr Mesner
March 13 - 15, 2026
This weekend is an opportunity for trans, nonbinary, and gender expansive people* to gather in community together. In these challenging times, we invite you into a space of sanctuary, refuge, and an honoring of our glorious gender diversity. We will explore themes of: Sanctuary: What kind of sanctuary do we need in this time? How we can provide sanctuary for ourselves and each other in this sacred gathering? How might we strengthen our webs of community now and in the days ahead Grounding - What supports us in grounding in our bodies, the earth, and that which is greater in…
Apocalyptic Reading Group – April
April 12, 2026
Zoom
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…
The Clearing: Black Queer and Trans Healing Retreat
With Lynice Pinkard
April 17 - 19, 2026
Black lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, and transgender people face the triple threat of white supremacy, misogynoir, and homophobia. Even the Church–long a refuge for Black people in the United States–is too often a site of trauma for us. That is why we now invite Black queer and trans people to The Clearing. Named for a scene in Toni Morrison’s Beloved, The Clearing is a site of soul retrieval that involves a rejection of the nothingness the world places on us and ours and a reclamation of our gifts and blessings, our belovedness. In The Clearing, our potential is freed from…
Allies in Recovery: A Weekend Workshop for Sexual Abuse Survivors and their Partners
With Mike Lew and Thom Harrigan
April 24 - 26, 2026
Nelson Lodge
It is required that all participants be fully vaccinated. The long-term and often painful process of recovery from sexual abuse has profound effects on relationships. Partners and survivors experience a parallel process of understanding the nature of abuse, its effects on the survivor and the couple, and the requirements of healing. Lack of information and understanding on both sides cause great strain on the couple. This weekend workshop is designed for couples where one or both of the partners is a non-offending survivor of sexual child abuse, rape, physical violence, emotional abuse and/or neglect. It is open to heterosexual, gay,…
Apocalyptic Reading Group – May
May 3, 2026
Zoom
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…
Practicing New Worlds
With Andrea Ritchie and Nichola Torbett
May 8 - 10, 2026
The Farmhouse
What are you practicing? This retreat is for anyone who knows in their bones that another world is possible beyond militarized borders, policing, and prisons, even if we can’t quite perceive the details from here, and who wants to be practicing toward that world. We’ll be exploring ways we can be doing that even right now, especially right now, in the midst of all THIS. To ground our conversation, we’ll be sitting with Andrea Ritchie’s latest book, Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies, which is full-to-bursting with interviews and stories from organizers all over Turtle Island, folks who are…
Trans Sanctuary
With Kerr Mesner
June 5 - 7, 2026
This weekend is an opportunity for trans, nonbinary, and gender expansive people* to gather in community together. In these challenging times, we invite you into a space of sanctuary, refuge, and an honoring of our glorious gender diversity. We will explore themes of: Sanctuary: What kind of sanctuary do we need in this time? How we can provide sanctuary for ourselves and each other in this sacred gathering? How might we strengthen our webs of community now and in the days ahead Grounding - What supports us in grounding in our bodies, the earth, and that which is greater in…
Apocalyptic Reading Group – June
June 7, 2026
Zoom
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…
Apocalyptic Reading Group – July
July 5, 2026
Zoom
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…
Apocalyptic Reading Group – August
August 2, 2026
Zoom
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…
Weaving our Iona Connections: A Walking Awake Pilgrimage
With Denise Crawn
August 7 - 15, 2026
A Walking Awake pilgrimage to the Isle of Iona, Scotland with Columcille Megalith Park and Kirkridge Retreat Center (registration is open to all). After experiencing a wonderfully memorable shared pilgrimage to Iona in 2024, Columcille Megalith Park, Kirkridge Retreat Center and Walking Awake are excited to announce that we've decided to offer another in August, 2026! If you are curious about the connections that link these three places together, have a love of Celtic Spirituality and Nature, always dreamed of traveling to Iona (or to return), this pilgrimage is for you! Our journey will begin on Friday, August 7th, 2026 with a group pick-up…
Apocalyptic Reading Group – September
September 6, 2026
Zoom
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…
Apocalyptic Reading Group – October
October 4, 2026
Zoom
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…
Apocalyptic Reading Group – November
November 1, 2026
Zoom
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…
Trans Sanctuary
With Kerr Mesner
November 13 - 15, 2026
This weekend is an opportunity for trans, nonbinary, and gender expansive people* to gather in community together. In these challenging times, we invite you into a space of sanctuary, refuge, and an honoring of our glorious gender diversity. We will explore themes of: Sanctuary: What kind of sanctuary do we need in this time? How we can provide sanctuary for ourselves and each other in this sacred gathering? How might we strengthen our webs of community now and in the days ahead Grounding - What supports us in grounding in our bodies, the earth, and that which is greater in…