Spiritual Practices for Resilience and Resistance, 7:00-8:30 pm at the Vicar’s House

Weeping. Praying for those in peril. Lamenting. These are practices that Christians have taken up, especially in times of violence or political unrest, for centuries — and they are practices that many of us have been moved toward in recent months. This May and June, the Vicar will lead three conversations about spiritual practices that connect us and our concerns to God, that nourish us to endure long seasons of disquiet, and that empower us to be agents of resistance in the world. We’ll consider what the deep tradition of Christian fasting has to say about how we manage our news intake. We’ll consider what the psalmist shows us about weeping, lamenting, and praying about our enemies. And throughout all these discussions, we’ll be trying to thread connections between practices of social and political resistance and more interior practices of Godward attention.

Only three sessions have been designated for this discussion, but it is the Vicar’s hope that these three sessions will deepen relationships among us so that some core group of people may find itself coalescing around the questions “How, then, do we want to continue in a path of deeper spiritual practice?” and “To what practices of resistance in the world might God be calling us as a community?” and “How can we support one another in a season when resilience feels scarce and exhaustion threatens?”

You are welcome to join into one, two or all three sessions in May and June. Questions? Email Vicar Lauren.