Events: Live Events are slowly coming back after COVID. Your donations help us get back to vital conversations.
Join us each month on the first Wednesday for a time of silence, song, and contemplation. Worship is simple, beautiful, and reflective. Bring your full self. Come, let your spirit breathe.
What is serious to men is often very trivial in the sight of God. What in God might appear to us as "play" is perhaps what he Himself takes most seriously. At any rate, the Lord plays and diverts Himself in the garden of His creation, and if we could let go of our own obsession with what we think is the meaning of it all, we might be able to hear His call and follow Him in His mysterious, cosmic dance. We do not have to go very far to catch echoes of that game, and of that dancing. When we are alone on a starlit night; when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to rest and eat; when we see children in a moment when they are really children; when we know love in our own hearts; or when, like the Japanese poet Bashō we hear an old frog land in a quiet pond with a solitary splash--at such times the awakening, the turning inside out of all values, the "newness," the emptiness and the purity of vision that make themselves evident, provide a glimpse of the cosmic dance.
For the world and time are the dance of the Lord in emptiness. The silence of the spheres is the music of a wedding feast. The more we persist in misunderstanding the phenomena of life, the more we analyze them out into strange finalities and complex purposes of our own, the more we involve ourselves in sadness, absurdity and despair. But it does not matter much, because no despair of ours can alter the reality of things; or stain the joy of the cosmic dance which is always there. Indeed, we are in the midst of it, and it is in the midst of us, for it beats in our very blood, whether we want it to or not.
Yet the fact remains that we are invited to forget ourselves on purpose, cast our awful solemnity to the winds and join in the general dance.” —Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation
Over the course of a full day, we will explore the following themes through quotes and ideas from Thomas Merton:
Self
Community
World
Creation
God
Our time together will be embodied. You will have permission to do whatever you need during this set apart day of rest; if you need to remove yourself from the group for a nap, a walk, or time alone, please do. There will be time to explore nature, to play, and to relax together. Bring a journal, games, an instrument, food to share, and some clothes/shoes for inclement weather if you decide to head out in exploration.
Join Derek Webb and Flamy Grant for a small and intimate concert on April 20 at The Well.
If you love music and have struggled with church because…well, for many reasons, this concert is for you. Here is a space for your spirit to be free.
Tickets are $25 and doors open at 7:30 PM.
Join therapist Caleb Visser as he helps adults think through how to discuss mental health with teens. His focus will be primarily on identity formation and fostering agency within teens.
Tickets are Pay are You Are Able through Eventbrite. Reserve your spot for this limit space workshop.
Caleb received his Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology from The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology. In more than a decade of work in clinical settings his focus has always been with adolescents and teens, starting with work in a residential foster home, spending two years working for the Cowlitz Tribe, and most recently in a contracted position in a local high school. Caleb works well with teens, building rapport quickly, working with parents when it's helpful, and trying to get to the heart of difficulties. Caleb is heavily influenced by the work of Daniel Siegel (The Whole-Brained Child, Mindsight, Brainstorm) and feels that the teenage years present a special window of opportunity for learning greater insight and empathy, as well as skills for self regulation.
Common Good Tacoma and The Well welcome Rev. Ben McBride on Sept 15 at Common Good Tacoma. He has a new book out "Troubling the Water: The Urgent Work of Radical Belonging." I know this is something that we are all talking about - belonging. For Seattleites, I know we always expect people to come to us, but here's an opportunity to be part of a small gathering with this activist who also stands in our shared spiritual space, working and laboring for a spiritual renewal and a spiritual movement of justice. For those in South King Co or Pierce Co, this is a great opportunity.
Please reserve your space. Space is limited...tickets are free. Just get to eventbrite and reserve your spot.
Rev. Ben McBride is an internationally recognized peacemaker, faith leader, activist, and speaker who has spoken in the US, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the Middle East. McBride is the co-founder of the Empower Initiative, a capacity building firm devoted to empowering organizations and communities to foster belonging.
Previously he served as director of PICO California, the state’s largest faith-based community organizing network. McBride was featured in the Sundance Film Festival award-winner The Force, and in 2020 the Center for American Progress listed him as one of the top faith leaders to watch. Ben lives in Oakland, California, with his wife, Gynelle, and their three daughters.
“This visionary and courageous book stands in the great tradition of Martin Luther King Jr. Ben McBride powerfully and persuasively shows how radical belonging and radical self-care are integral to a radical Christianity—a Christianity serious about the radical love of Jesus Christ.”
—Dr. Cornel West, philosopher, activist, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer Chair at Union Theological Seminary
Join us for a vital conversation about how theology frames depression. This vital conversation will walk us through how theology has talked about depression and will look at how we might “sketch new maps” for addressing living with depression as people of faith.
Dr. Jessica Coblentz is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Theology, Gender and Womens Studies at Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, IN. She also has lived with depression. Her book “Dust in the Blood” explores the complexities of depression and how it has been discussed in a variety of Christian theologies. Dr. Coblentz puts her hands in these theologies and pushes and pulls them into a new shape that helps people today expand our theological framing of depression so that we may respond to it in new ways.
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Notes of Rest is a practice of contemplation and creativity that moves us towards the rest we were created to receive. This workshop - Sabbath and Our Ancestors - will use music, teaching, and interaction to explore how we carry in our bodies patterns of work and rest inherited from our ancestors. As we explore how some patterns helped our ancestors survive, we will ask how those patterns serve us today. And, what from our ancestors - familial and spiritual - has been buried deep inside of us that yearns to be released and given life?
Notes of Rest is a spiritual formation ministry grounded in scripture and black music that helps the body of Christ receive God’s gift of rest.
Julian Davis Reid is a pianist, producer and composer with a focus on jazz, electronic music, and gospel. He is a founding member of the jazz-electronic fusion group The JuJu Exchange (in partnership with Grammy Award winner Nico Segal and drummer-inventor Nova Zaii). Julian holds a B.A from Yale University and an M.Div. degree from Candler School of Theology at Emory University. Julian and his wife live in Chicago.
Scholarships are available if the ticket price is a hindrance to attendance. We charge to offset costs, but we never believe that cost should keep someone from attending our public engagements. Call us or email us if you need financial relief to attend.
Tickets available via Brown Paper Tickets: https://juliandavisreid.bpt.me/
Rev. Yolanda Norton brings her Beyoncé Mass to Saint Mark's Episcopal Church in Seattle, WA on May 6th. Come dance, laugh, lament with us for a groundbreaking worship service that uses the music and life of Beyoncé as a tool to cultivate an empowering conversation about Black women—their lives, their bodies, and their voices. Beyoncé Mass creates a space of story, scripture, and song that calls for the liberation of all people.
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Admission is FREE. But tickets are required. (https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/5395087)
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Curated by Rev. Yolanda Norton, the Beyoncé Mass has gathered thousands of people from Southern California to Portugal with even more worship services coming in 2022.
Learn more at beyoncemass.com.
Become a More Powerful Peacemaker in Your Family, Community and Workplace
9:30 a.m. to 5:45 p.m. Saturday May 30
1:00 p.m. to 6:30 pm Sunday May 31
Facilitated by Susan Partnow
Deepen Your Exploration of the Five Core Practices of Compassionate Listening and learn the skills necessary to bring this powerful technique into your daily life.
**Cultivating and Holding Compassion for Oneself and Others
**Developing the Fair Witness, without Judgment or Blame
**Maintaining Balance in the Heat of Conflict, with Respect for Self and Others
**Listening with the Heart
**Speaking from the Heart
Compassionate Listening is a practice that reaches deep into the heart of discord or disconnection, teaching people to listen with a different "ear" to those around them. Its powerful tools help transform the energy of conflict into opportunities for understanding, intimacy at home, healthy relations, productive teamwork, and positive action. It is a practice that provides a roadmap to what sages from all ages and cultures have taught: cultivating the wisdom of the heart is the key to real peace "from the inside out."
This two day session provides provides a basic introduction, beginning with a focus on our own stories and self compassion, and then stepping in the shoes of the other, transforming debate to dialogue and healing connection, and learning from our judgments. Prior students are welcomed and encouraged to repeat the training.
Your Facilitator: Susan Partnow is co-founder of Conversation Cafes, Let’s Talk America and Global Citizen Journey. She is a former teacher and speech pathologist, author of Everyday Speaking for All Occasions, co-contributor of The Art of Compassionate Listening, certified mediator, and an organizational development consultant/trainer for over 20 years, with an M.A. from Northwestern University. She is Network Weaver and a Sr. Facilitator for The Compassionate Listening Project.
Cost: Total cost for the two-day workshop is $175 - $300. You'll be able to choose what you pay within this range at the end of the workshop. Those able and willing to contribute at the higher end help support our ability to provide partial scholarships for those who are in need.
Pre-registration of $50 is required. Register here:
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4400305
This pre-registration fee goes toward the total workshop fee. The remainder of the fee is due at the end of the workshop. We' can accept Venmo or Paypal but are unable to accept credit cards at the workshop so bring cash or checkbook!
Note: Partial scholarships may be available for those unable to pay the full fee, so please don't let cost be a barrier.
Cancellation Policy:If you cancel with more than two weeks notice, we can apply $40 toward registration toward a future workshop. With less than two weeks notice, we can apply $25 toward a future workshop. There are no refunds.
Continuing education credits may be available for this workshop.
For more about The Compassionate Listening Project,
visit www:compassionatelistening.org
Many Christians are taught that God is all powerful, can do anything, and can fix everything. Dr. Thomas Jay Oord explores how a relational and loving God inherently can’t do and fix everything - not alone. A provocative idea for many, come and wrestle with the problem of suffering and evil and a God who strives to heal.
Dr. Thomas Jay Oord is a theologian, philosopher, and scholar of multi-disciplinary studies. He is director of the Center for Open and Relational Theology. He won the Outstanding Faculty Award twelve times as professor at Northwest Nazarene University, Nampa, Idaho. Oord is known for his contributions to research on love, open and relational theology, science and religion, and Wesleyan/Holiness/Church of the Nazarene thought. While Dr. Oord’s presentation will come from the breadth of his work, his conversation with us will primarily come from his book God Can’t: How to Believe in God and Love After Tragedy, Abuse, and Other Evils. We encourage people to read the book prior to the presentation. If you would like to read with others and discuss, please let us know. While we charge for this event to offset our costs, all are welcome to attend regardless of ability to pay. Just let us know at thewellqueenanne@gmail.com.
Tickets are $10 General Admission and $5 for Students. All are welcome to attend despite ability to pay.
This event is one part of three events with Dr. Oord in the greater Seattle area. Feb 8 @The Well, Feb 9 preaching at First UMC Seattle (Thank Goodness God is NOT in Control), Feb 9 evening talk at Bellevue First UMC (God Can’t: A Better Way to Think about God & Suffering - RSVP & more info at fumcbellevue.org/oord.)
Dr. Thomas Jay Oord will be at The Well Feb 8 to discuss the idea that God Can’t Fix Everything and That’s a Good Idea. Read the book first and come discuss.
This 1.25 hour conversation will help determine the questions to bring to Dr. Oord’s conversation and allow space for us to explore power, agency, love, coercion, and divinity. Have you ever wondered if God is omnipotent why there’s suffering in the world? Would a God with limits on power be a blow to your faith? However you decide on this, asking hard questions is always a good thing for our faith. Come, ask, discuss, and get ready for the talk on Feb 8.
There is no charge for the book group, but please RSVP to thewellqueenanne@gmail.com. At least 3 people must sign up for this group to take place.
Come, let your spirit breathe. For forty minutes, find solace in prayer, song, and silence. We enter Advent with the hope that the Divine will collapse our world of violence and greed through the inbreaking of the Prince of Peace. This will be our meditation this week.
This service is free and open to the public.
In a day long retreat with Dr. Charles L Howard of the University of Pennsylvania, we will explore how to curate hope and care for personal integrity during these times of division and discord.
We will look at public discourse and what is happening nationally. How do we engage in prophetic acts with compassion and care?
We will look at how public discourse and the national temperature affects personal relationships. How or even can we maintain relationships amid deep divisions, especially when those divisions expose differences in core values?
What does it mean to be spiritually grounded and widely loving?
What are personal practices that can help us look at the world as it is without finding ourselves in deep despair?
These and other issues will be explored in this full day of silence, sharing, learning, and resting.
Nadia Bolz-Weber will speak about her newest and most personal book Shameless: A Sexual Reformation.
Out to slay a giant by going after the church’s teachings on human sexuality, Bolz-Weber weaves narrative, history, scripture, and wit together to show how Christianity has often turned the glorious gift of bodies into something ugly and shameful, telling us that true holiness equates to sexual repression — “as if the God of the Universe had programmed into creation a passive-aggressive test of our willpower.”
Joining Nadia for the conversation is Seattle’s own Gail Song Barnum.
Tickets are $7.50-$15 and are available through Eventbrite.
We are grateful to University Temple UMC for allowing us to co-sponsor this event with them.
2 hr Workshop - $15
Great strides have been taken in the church regarding safe sanctuaries that protect children from abuse. However, the church often overlooks how they might minister to the adult survivors of abuse in their midst. Survivors of child sexual abuse often hide in plain sight, and the church has little awareness of the spiritual wounds they bear. In this workshop, we will discuss the many aspects of church that can prevent survivors from feeling safe or connecting with God. We will explore simple adjustments to common rituals that will allow those wounded ones among us to participate more fully in the life of the church, as well as the ways in which church members, clergy, and staff can reach out to those victims and walk alongside them in appropriate and healing ways.
Sue Magrath is the author of Healing the Ravaged Soul: Tending the Spiritual Wounds of Child Sexual Abuse. She is a retired psychotherapist, having spent 14 years as a pastoral counselor working with victims of child sexual abuse. She is active in the UMC as a spiritual director, retreat and workshop leader, church consultant, and advocate in the area of clergy wellness.
"Interrupting Silence: God's Command to Speak Out" is a new book by Walter Brueggemann. For 8 chapters, Dr. Brueggemann walks readers through an in depth Bible study about why and how Christians must speak out and act in solidarity with those who are oppressed and marginalized.
We will discuss the full book in two sessions covering four chapters each time. This will be our second conversation covering chapters 5-8.
Chapter Titles: The Oppressed Break Silence, Prophets Refuse to Be Silenced, Silence Kills, Jesus Rudely Interrupted, Casting Out Silence, The Crowd as Silencer, Truth Speaks to Power, and The Church as a Silencing Institution.
Please RSVP to thewellqueenanne@gmail.com if you would like to join. Books are available through a local bookstore or Amazon (including Kindle).
"Interrupting Silence: God's Command to Speak Out" is a new book by Walter Brueggemann. For 8 chapters, Dr. Brueggemann walks readers through an in depth Bible study about why and how Christians must speak out and act in solidarity with those who are oppressed and marginalized.
We will discuss the full book in two sessions covering four chapters each time. Our second session will be August 28, 1-2 PM.
Chapter Titles: The Oppressed Break Silence, Prophets Refuse to Be Silenced, Silence Kills, Jesus Rudely Interrupted, Casting Out Silence, The Crowd as Silencer, Truth Speaks to Power, and The Church as a Silencing Institution.
Please RSVP to thewellqueenanne@gmail.com if you would like to join. Books are available through a local bookstore or Amazon (including Kindle).
Register here: https://self-compassion-june-2018.eventbrite.com
This one-day workshop focuses specifically on practices that enhance our capacity for self-compassion and self care - which is foundational to our ability to be of true service in the world.
We all know that at the core of our ability to bring compassion to others, those closest to us as well as those suffering around the globe, we must embrace our ability to be compassionate with ourselves. And yet that seems to be one thing so many of us have the greatest difficulty with.
Join us for a rejuvenating and inspiring session focused on honing the precious jewel that exists at the heart of our being.
Your Facilitator: Susan Partnow is co-founder of Conversation Cafes, Let’s Talk America and Global Citizen Journey. She is a former teacher and speech pathologist, author of Everyday Speaking for All Occasions, co-author of The Art of Compassionate Listening, certified mediator, and an organizational development consultant/trainer for over 20 years, with an M.A. from Northwestern University.
Cost: Total cost for the one-day workshop is $75 to $150. You'll be able to choose what you pay within this range at the end of the workshop. Those able and willing to contribute at the higher end help support our ability to provide partial scholarships for those who are in need.
Pre-registration of $50 is required. This pre-registration fee goes toward the total workshop fee. The remainder of the fee is due at the end of the workshop. We're unable to accept any credit cards at the workshop so bring cash or checkbook! eturning participant
Partial scholarships may be available for those unable to pay the full fee, so please don't let cost be a barrier.
Cancellation Policy:If you cancel with more than two weeks notice, we can apply $40 toward registration toward a future workshop. With less than two weeks notice, we can apply $25 toward a future workshop. There are no refunds.
Continuing education credits may be available for this workshop.
For more about The Compassionate Listening Project,
visit www:compassionatelistening.org
Become a More Powerful Peacemaker in Your Family, Community and Workplace
9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Deepen Your Exploration of the Five Core Practices of Compassionate Listening and learn the skills necessary to bring this powerful technique into your daily life.
**Holding Compassion for Oneself and Others
**Suspending Judgment
**Maintaining Balance in the Heat of Conflict
**Listening with the Heart
**Speaking from the Heart
Compassionate Listening is a practice that reaches deep into the heart of discord or disconnection, teaching people to listen with a different "ear" to those around them. Its powerful tools help transform the energy of conflict into opportunities for understanding, intimacy at home, healthy relations, productive teamwork, and positive action. It is a practice that provides a roadmap to what sages from all ages and cultures have taught: cultivating the wisdom of the heart is the key to real peace "from the inside out."
This one day session provides Day 2 of the basic introduction for those who have take Day 1 and an opportunity for previous participants to review and deepen their practice. Whereas Day 1 focused on our own stories and self compassion, Day 2 brings us to stepping in the shoes of the other, transforming debate to dialogue and healing connection, and learning from our judgements.
Your Facilitator: Susan Partnow is co-founder of Conversation Cafes, Let’s Talk America and Global Citizen Journey. She is a former teacher and speech pathologist, author of Everyday Speaking for All Occasions, co-author of The Art of Compassionate Listening, certified mediator, and an organizational development consultant/trainer for over 20 years, with an M.A. from Northwestern University.
Primary Hosts: Heart Sisters In Actions and Global Citizen Journey
Cost: Total cost for the one-day workshop is $75 to 150. You'll be able to choose what you pay within this range at the end of the workshop. Those able and willing to contribute at the higher end help support our ability to provide partial scholarships for those who are in need.
Pre-registration of $50 is required. Register here: https://compassionate_listening_intro_day_2_april_21.eventbrite.com/
This pre-registration fee goes toward the total workshop fee. The remainder of the fee is due at the end of the workshop. We're unable to accept any credit cards at the workshop so bring cash or checkbook!
Partial scholarships may be available for those unable to pay the full fee, so please don't let cost be a barrier.
Cancellation Policy:If you cancel with more than two weeks notice, we can apply $40 toward registration toward a future workshop. With less than two weeks notice, we can apply $25 toward a future workshop. There are no refunds.
Continuing education credits may be available for this workshop.
For more about The Compassionate Listening Project,
visit www:compassionatelistening.org
Become a More Powerful Peacemaker in Your Family,
Community and Workplace
Now more than ever we need to learn and practice skills that reach the heart and build connection and understanding in our polarized worlds. Join this one day session co-hosted by Queen Anne Methodist/The Well
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/compassionate-listening-intensive-healing-the-world-from-the-inside-out-tickets-37781176516?aff=efbevent
Come explore the Five Core Practices of Compassionate Listening and learn the skills necessary to bring this powerful technique into your daily life
*Holding Compassion for Oneself and Others
*Developing the Fair Witness
*Maintaining Balance in the Heat of Conflict
*Listening with the Heart
*Speaking from the Heart
Compassionate Listening is a practice that reaches deep into the heart of discord or disconnection, teaching people to listen with a different "ear" to those around them. Its powerful tools help transform the energy of conflict into opportunities for understanding, intimacy at home, healthy relations, productive teamwork, and positive action. It is a practice that provides a roadmap to what sages from all ages and cultures have taught: cultivating the wisdom of the heart is the key to real peace "from the inside out."
The one day session will serve as a basic introduction for newcomers and an opportunity for previous participants to review and deepen their practice.
Your Facilitator: Susan Partnow is co-founder of Conversation Cafes, Let’s Talk America and Global Citizen Journey. She is a former teacher and speech pathologist, author of Everyday Speaking for All Occasions, co-author of The Art of Compassionate Listening, certified mediator, and an organizational development consultant/trainer for over 20 years, with an M.A. from Northwestern University
Co-Hosted by Heart Sisters in Action and Global Citizen Journey.
Cost: Total cost for the one-day workshop is $75 to 150. You'll be able to choose what you pay within this range at the end of the workshop. Those able and willing to contribute at the higher end help support our ability to provide partial scholarships for those who are in need.
Pre-registration of $50 is required. This pre-registration fee goes toward the total workshop fee. The remainder of the fee is due at the end of the workshop. We're unable to accept any credit cards at the workshop so bring cash or checkbook!
Partial scholarships may be available for those unable to pay the full fee, so please don't let cost be a barrier.
Register here: https://compassionatelistening-day_1_april_7.eventbrite.com/
Continuing education credits may be available for this workshop.
For more about The Compassionate Listening Project,
visit www:compassionatelistening.org
Become a More Powerful Peacemaker in Your Family,
Community and Workplace
9:30 a.m. to 5:45 p.m.
Explore the Five Core Practices of Compassionate Listening and learn the skills necessary to bring this powerful technique into your daily life.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/compassionate-listening-intensive-healing-the-world-from-the-inside-out-tickets-37781176516?aff=efbevent
Holding Compassion for Oneself and Others
Suspending Judgment
Maintaining Balance in the Heat of Conflict
Listening with the Heart
Speaking from the Heart
Compassionate Listening is a practice that reaches deep into the heart of discord or disconnection, teaching people to listen with a different "ear" to those around them. Its powerful tools help transform the energy of conflict into opportunities for understanding, intimacy at home, healthy relations, productive teamwork, and positive action. It is a practice that provides a roadmap to what sages from all ages and cultures have taught: cultivating the wisdom of the heart is the key to real peace "from the inside out."
The one day session will serve as a basic introduction for newcomers and an opportunity for previous participants to review and deepen their practice.
Your Facilitator: Susan Partnow is co-founder of Conversation Cafes, Let’s Talk America and Global Citizen Journey. She is a former teacher and speech pathologist, author of Everyday Speaking for All Occasions, co-author of The Art of Compassionate Listening, certified mediator, and an organizational development consultant/trainer for over 20 years, with an M.A. from Northwestern University
Cost: Total cost for the one-day workshop is $75 to 150. You'll be able to choose what you pay within this range at the end of the workshop. Those able and willing to contribute at the higher end help support our ability to provide partial scholarships for those who are in need.
Pre-registration of $50 is required. This pre-registration fee goes toward the total workshop fee. The remainder of the fee is due at the end of the workshop. We're unable to accept any credit cards at the workshop so bring cash or checkbook!
Partial scholarships may be available for those unable to pay the full fee, so please don't let cost be a barrier.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/compassionate-listening-intensive-healing-the-world-from-the-inside-out-tickets-37781176516?aff=efbevent
Cancellation Policy:If you cancel with more than two weeks notice, we can apply $40 toward registration toward a future workshop. With less than two weeks notice, we can apply $25 toward a future workshop. There are no refunds.
Additional Information:
If you do not receive your Paypal receipt, there was probably a problem with your registration. Please call us if this happens. Do not assume that you are registered!
After registering and paying, you will receive an email from PayPal confirming your payment. This is your confirmation of a completed registration. If you elect to pay by check, you will receive a confirmation as soon as the check is received. Within two weeks prior to the workshop we will send an email with final details and directions.
As mentioned: We have some ability to offer partial scholarships. If you'd like to know more about this workshop or partial scholarships, contact Susan at (206) 310-1203 or susanpartnow@gmail.com
Continuing education credits may be available for this workshop.
For more about The Compassionate Listening Project,
visit www:compassionatelistening.org
15th Annual InterSpiritual Community Summit
Register Now: http://bpt.me/3104156
Who is speaking for "us" in the public square to reconcile the many contentious issues threatening our collective well-being? Are you, too, concerned about the polarization that is blocking us from discovering common purpose within our families, neighborhoods and communities? Perhaps, "it begins with us!).
We invite you to join with us to design and create a group that will re-frame the current debates. Together with spiritual guides from 9 world religions, we intend to devote our annual interfaith community summit to rediscovering the universal spiritual wisdom we share at the deepest level of our humanity.
Northwest Interfaith, partner of Call of Compassion NW, has incorporated NICO (Northwest Interfaith Community Outreach) and TIN (The Interfaith Network) and is organizing this summit as a community grassroots initiative. We believe that shared spiritual practices can awaken us to new possibilities for peace, that compassionate relational skills will help us initiate courageous dialogue with people who disagree with us, and, when applied respectfully and authentically in the public square, they will reveal common purpose for healthy political outcomes.
Now is the time and we are the people: please come, invite your friends --- and Register Now!
Join leaders from 9 spiritual traditions in a Council of Wisdom Seekers
♥ share spiritual practices
♥ learn how to be in authentic relationship
♥ connect with others who think differently
Let us learn something new, including practices to cultivate:
Inner Peace - Reclaim peace in ourselves
Healthy Relationships - Trust is the key
Beloved Communities- Everyone is our neighbor
$15 advanced registration; $20 at the door donations for scholarships welcomed
*Northwest Interfaith is the union of The Interfaith Network (TIN) and NW Interfaith Community Outreach (NICO).
2017 InterSpiritual Community Summit is co-sponsored with: The Interfaith Amigos, The Well/Queen Anne UMC, Interfaith Community Sanctuary, SeattleU STM, AnandaWashington, St Patrick Church, Call of Compassion NW, and more...
@First United Methodist Church
Come engage with Rev. Dr. Mae Elise Cannon, executive director of Churches for Middle East Peace as she hosts a conversation with Daoud Nassar from Tent of Nations near Bethlehem about daily living, human rights concerns, and peacebuilding.
Tickets: $12 suggested donation at the door or purchased in advance via Brown Paper Tickets.
Brought to you by First United Methodist Church and The Well.
Doors open at 6:30 PM. Parking available on site.
"Gratitude is the core of resistance." -Diana Butler Bass
Noted Christian historian, author, and speaker Diana Butler Bass will join us once again, this time to explore how gratitude and love are necessary and sufficient powers that sustain people for resistance.
This event is co-sponsored by and hosted at Plymouth Congregational Church.
New Price: General $20, Student $10
If you purchased tickets are the previous price, please email us at thewellqueenanne@gmail.com for refund information.
This event is co-sponsored by Plymouth Congregational Church.
Rita Nakashima Brock, Rel. M., M.A., Ph.D. is a noted theologian who she has lectured all over the world. As Co-Founder of the Soul Repair Center, Dr. Brock has become an internationally recognized expert on the emerging study of moral injury and recovery.
At The Well, she will be speaking on The Moral Injuries of a Country: The Cost of Dualism, War and Violence, and the Agonies of Now.
Dualistic thinking drives us to divide the world into innocent and evil. Heroes are innocent and good. Villains are guilty and evil. Such thinking is too simplistic to capture lived real experiences. How do we deal with failure, love, violence, personal struggle, economic pressures, costly decisions and so forth matters.
A social contract collapses because it's moral foundations are threatened or destroyed by events and behaviors that violate its core values. This lecture will examine, through the lens of moral injury, the recurring and lingering traumatic events that have propelled significant social change in American society and the current context of backlash attempting to reach back to a discredited past.
In December 2008, she and Dr. Gabriella Lettini began work on the Truth Commission on Conscience in War (www.conscienceinwar.org), which, in November 2010, recommended extensive public education on moral injury. In response, she and Dr. Lettini co-authored Soul Repair: Recovery from Moral Injury After War(Beacon, 2012).
A native of Fukuoka, Japan, whose mother was trained in nursing by the Red Cross after WW II, Dr. Brock’s birth father was a U.S. Army veteran of the Korean War and her stepfatherwas a U.S. Army veteran of World War II and the Vietnam War who served 29 years in the military. Dr. Brock earned her Ph.D. in philosophy of religion and theology in 1988 from Claremont Graduate University, becoming the first Asian American woman in the country to earn a doctorate in theology and the first ever to serve on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Religion (AAR). From 2004 to 2012, she co-founded and directed Faith Voices for the Common Good, which generated online and in-person networked social change projects for progressive faith leaders and organizations and which helped organize the Truth Commission on Conscience in War. She has held a number of leadership positions in the academy and led the effort to create a program unit in 2013 to study moral injury in religion, society, and culture, a unit she co-chairs with Dr. Elizabeth Bounds of Emory University.
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Did you know that King County Juvenile Court is currently piloting Peacemaking Circles as an alternative and community-based way to resolve some of its juvenile felony cases? This reduces incarceration, fosters healing for both victims and offenders, and affords a profound opportunity for transformation. This is the Gospel in action and it’s unfolding right here in our own backyard. Faith communities are needed to expand our network of circle providers. Would your church like to be involved? We’ll begin by transforming ourselves using this tool. Please join us to learn more!
QUESTIONS?
Contact for Protestant and Interfaith Communities: REV. TERRI STEWART, (425) 531-1756 or YCC-Chaplain@thechurchcouncil.org
Contact for Catholic Communities: JOE COTTON
(206) 382-4847 or joe.cotton@seattlearch.
This event is co-sponsored by Riverton Park United Methodist Church, the Youth Chaplaincy Coalition, and The Well.
This event is free and open to the public. Please register by contacting the above listed names.
With her "Maher Communities," Sister Lucy Kurien, member of the Catholic order Sisters of the Cross, has opened 90 rural and urban communities served in three Indian states with a mission to get to root causes of violence and despair experienced by women and children in India; support family reunification; provide safe and loving residential services for women and children when reunification is not possible; and assist women in their individual paths to self-reliance.
More than 2,000 people have benefited from Sister Lucy's work - over 300 women and 900 children currently in residence in 44 homes.
The "Magic of Maher" lays in its deep path:
The are also deeply respectful of Mother Earth - composting and organic gardens, solar water heating, water recycling and biogas systems and attention to good nutrition.
We invite you to join in an intimate evening with this Roman Catholic nun who has started an interfaith community. Maher is an interfaith and caste-free Indian NGO. Learn about this remarkable work.
This event is co-sponsored by Maher Communities: Northwest Friends and The Well. It is free and open to the public.
What is SoulCollage®?
SoulCollage® is an intuitive collage process for self-discovery and community. People make their own decks of collaged cards for their personal use from images found in purchased or donated magazines, calendars, books, cards, etc. and from stock photos and/or personal materials (e.g., photos, one’s own art). The SoulCollage® process helps people discover their unique inner/outer guides and challengers, and to explore and express their unique soul in its lightness as well as its shadow. It is also fun to do, individually and in community!. Visit http://www.soulcollage.com/principles-of-soulcollage for more information.
Our Exploration
We will be working on four to six cards. Cards that will represent aspects of ourselves in the morning and then delving into the "transpersonal cards" in the afternoon. The transpersonal cards signify our Source, Witness, and Soul. We will use the process to create cards learn how to use the cards to better know ourselves.
Purpose
To offer the training to chaplains for soul care and to the community to learn this artistic process.
Bring
Scissors is you can! and lunch and any drinks you might want.
$20 will cover supplies!
Peterson Toscano has shaken up Bible academics and received high praise for his ground-breaking, genre-bending, gender blending Bible scholarship. By unearthing the stories of gender-variant people in the Hebrew and Christian scriptures, Toscano’s one-person play deepens well-known (and lesser-known) Bible stories and presents an array of Bible characters with an array of genders.
After the screening, Peterson Toscano will be with us to participate in an audience Q & A.
Reviews:
Toscano brings a deep reverence for the Biblical text with him into his exploration of gender transgression. This play is mesmerizing and compels the viewer to see well known Bible stories in a brave new light. -Nadia Bolz-Weber, Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint
As a biblical scholar I'm always a bit skeptical about dramatic interpretations of biblical texts, whether they will truly capture the complexity of the originals; however, Peterson's performances bring to light dimensions of the texts that many, even those of us who spend hours with the text on the page, fail to see. By bringing the stories and characters to life we're able to see the human-ness of the biblical narratives in all its gore and glory. -Lynn Huber, Associate Professor of Religious Studies--New Testament and Early Christian History, Elon College.
This event is free and open to the public. Donations are welcome!
The Bible has been used as a weapon against LGBTQ people. For over a decade Peterson Toscano has engaged in a creative and very public dialogue with these ancient texts. His Bible scholarship is sound, but perhaps more importantly, it is filled with humor and warmth.
In this lively performance lecture, Peterson reveals bizarre, hilarious, disturbing, and revelatory characters and moments from the Hebrew and Christian scriptures. This is not “What does the Bible say about homosexuality?” No, Peterson delves into the text to find gender outlaws in it, to bust open traditional readings, and provides whole new perspectives.
What has been astonishing about Peterson’s Bible presentations is how well they are received by all kinds of audience members. Traditional Bible believers, progressive Christians and Jews, Bible scholars, atheists, and people who don’t know the first thing about the Bible, are drawn in, entertained and enlightened.
If you want to hear something fresh and new about old Bible stories and also experience outright weird and hysterical performance art, come see Peterson's performance/lecture!
