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Spiritual Deepening eRetreats: Living into Wholeness

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Many of us know that the Beloved Community is “not yet,” because we see the trauma of white supremacy and free-market colonialism playing itself out across the globe. But can we co-create and Live Into Wholeness together?

The Living into Wholeness eRetreat invites you to explore and practice what it means to live into Beloved Community, the ways we are called to recognize patterns of marginalization and exclusion and to act toward justice, and tools for transforming and vitalizing our meetings and communities.  

Week 1: Living into Wholeness

Week 2: Community Calls Us to Justice

Week 3: Patterns of Exclusion and Marginalization

Week 4: Tools for Transformation & Vitality

This eRetreat has been previously offered under the name Beloved Community.

 

The Living into Wholeness eRetreat will be facilitated by Mary Linda McKinney.

Mary Linda McKinney is a long-time member of Nashville Friends Meeting. For the past year, she has been worshiping with other faith communities, most often an Alliance of Baptists church, but also Sufi zikr, and a Buddhist dharma group. She simultaneously recognizes and is oblivious to this world being the Kin-dom of Heaven and her heart's deepest desire is to grow into the person her Divine Mama created her to be.

Mary Linda meets with individuals and groups, in-person and on-line in her role as an interfaith spiritual director. She is elated to be married to Mark Wutka and to share their home with a whole bunch of other people. She enjoys vegetarian ramen, doodling, red shoes, and loves art house films in which redemption happens.

 

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