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Online Retreat: Wisdom of the Christian Mystics (with Brother Elias)

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This event has been moved to online. Please register to join us on Zoom. It's become an annual tradition! Every fall I co-facilitate this retreat with Brother Elias, the author of Tears of an Innocent God. This year, we've moved the dates back to January, and we'll be online, so hope you can join us! Wisdom...

$45

Online Retreat: Mystical Path to a Joyful Life (August 4-5, 2023)

Online Event

Click here to register for this online event. Friends, I hope you'll join me on August 4 and 5 for an online contemplative retreat focussing on one of my favorite topics: Joy! Co-sponsored by Contemplative Outreach of New Orleans and the School for Contemplative Living, this retreat will weave together Centering Prayer with spirited exploration...

$49

Day Retreat for Women: Filling Your Life with God’s Love

Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist 222 East Harris St., Savannah, GA, United States

WOMEN’S RETREAT “Filling Your life with God’s Love” Date: Saturday, August 19, 2023.  Time: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm (Vigil mass optional 5:30 pm) Location: Newly Renovated, Regina Coeli Parish Hall                 222 East Harris St., Savannah GA 31401 Cost: $40/pp, includes breakfast & lunch “Lord, teach us...

$40

Retreat: The Spirituality of Julian of Norwich

Mepkin Abbey 1098 Mepkin Abbey Rd, Moncks Corner, SC, United States

To register for this event, click here. Julian of Norwich, according to Thomas Merton, is "without doubt one of the most wonderful of all Christian voices." Julian lived in the fourteenth century and experienced a series of visions centered on divine love; she wrote a book about her visions — the first book written in...

$450

Book Release Party: The New Big Book of Christian Mysticism

Cathedral of Saint Philip 2744 Peachtree Road, NW, Atlanta, GA, United States

Hi friends, you are invited to come to the Cathedral of Saint Philip at 7 PM on Thursday, August 31 to celebrate the publication of The New Big Book of Christian Mysticism. Here's the write up from the Cathedral Bookstore's Website: Book Launch Celebration for: The New Big Book of Christian Mysticism by author Carl McColman...

Free

In Person Workshop: Introduction to Celtic Spirituality (in Dublin!)

Balally Parish (Church of the Ascension) Cedar Road, Wedgewood, Dublin, Ireland

An American, talking about Celtic spirituality at a church in Dublin? I suppose stranger things have happened! But when my good friend Fr. Jim Caffrey invited me to give a couple of talks at his parish church, it was his idea for me to share my love of the Celtic tradition. So with humility and...

Ireland Pilgrimage: September 20-27, 2023

Update: Our Ireland Pilgrimage is full. Please click here to be added to the waiting list. I've partnered with Zeitgeist, an Atlanta-based spiritual community, to create a special interspiritual pilgrimage to Sacred Ireland in September 2023! We'll explore sacred sites from both the pre-Christian and Christian traditions, celebrate the spiritual wisdom from Irish folklore, myth,...

In-Person Class: Christian Prayer and Eastern Meditation

Ignatius House Retreat Center 6700 Riverside Dr, Sandy Springs, GA, United States

For more information or to register, click here. Bede Griffiths went to India. Thomas Merton befriended the Dalai Lama. Jesuit priests like Robert Kennedy, Ruben Habito and Thomas Hand have all incorporated Zen meditation into their Christian practice. Again and again, Christian spiritual seekers and leaders have found inspiration and insight from a variety of...

$50

Retreat: The Spirituality of Social Justice

The Rock Hill Oratory 434 Charlotte Avenue, Rock Hill, SC, United States

Click here to register for this in-person event. Join me at the Oratory Center for Spirituality this October for a special Friday night/Saturday retreat on "the Spirituality of Social Justice." More details to come!      

Interview: Carl McColman in Conversation with Richard Smiley

Online Event

Richard Smoley, editor of Quest Magazine and author of books like Inner Christianity and How God Became God, recently interviewed me to celebrate the publication of The New Big Book of Christian Mysticism. A shortened form of the interview will be published in Quest, but we recorded the Zoom call and so the Theosophical Society...

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