BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Meadville Lombard Theological School - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Meadville Lombard Theological School X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://meadville.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Meadville Lombard Theological School REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20250309T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20251102T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20260308T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20261101T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20270314T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20271107T070000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260209 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260210 DTSTAMP:20260409T155622 CREATED:20260226T030303Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260226T030303Z UID:10000071-1770595200-1770681599@meadville.edu SUMMARY:Spring billing / financial aid disbursements begin DESCRIPTION: URL:https://meadville.edu/event/spring-billing-financial-aid-disbursements-begin/ CATEGORIES:Academic Calendar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260220T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260220T130000 DTSTAMP:20260409T155622 CREATED:20260224T005059Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260224T005731Z UID:10000044-1771585200-1771592400@meadville.edu SUMMARY:Wealth in a Post-Imperial Faith: Part One DESCRIPTION:<< Back to LIGHT Events\n \n \nThis event has passed. \n\n Wealth in a Post-Imperial Faith: Part One\n\n February 20\n @\n11:00 am\n –\n1:00 pm\n \nJoin the Global Connections Office at the Unitarian Universalist Association and the Leadership Institute for Growth\, Healing\, and Transformation at Meadville Lombard for this three-part series focusing on wealth in North American Unitarian Universalism. We’ll take a conversational approach to various topics including classism in North American U/Uism\, charitable giving from congregations\, church endowments\, community partnerships\, reconciliation\, and reparations. The series will include presentation\, discussion\, and how-to’s of changing wealth practices with leaders across fields of ministry and philanthropy. \nPart 1: Redefining Wealth: Embracing the Abundance of Pluralism\nThis panel will briefly review the colonial trappings of material wealth that have prevented UU congregations from moving into a post-imperial mindset. Two ministers share their personal experiences\, as well as reflections from their two different congregational settings and how the call to pluralism is redefining their financial and social priorities. Participants will be invited to reflect with the presenters on class and privilege\, the tension of vision and debt\, and how mutual transformation is possible in a post-imperial future.   \nPresenters:\n\nRev. Kimberly Quinn Johnson\, UU Congregation of the South Fork\nRev. Nic Cable\, Minister\, UU Congregation of Columbus\, IN\n\n \n registration\n \n\n Categories:\n LIGHT Courses\n\n \n Add to calendar \n \n \n \n\n\n Google Calendar\n\n\n iCalendar\n\n\n Outlook 365\n\n\n Outlook Live\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Tending the Wounded Spirit: Trauma-Informed Spiritual Direction \n\n\n \n The Third Act: Redefining Ourselves as We Age URL:https://meadville.edu/event/wealth-in-a-post-imperial-faith-part-one/ CATEGORIES:LIGHT Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://meadville.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/wealth-in-post-imperial-faith-16-9.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260302 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260303 DTSTAMP:20260409T155622 CREATED:20260225T213913Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260225T213913Z UID:10000048-1772409600-1772495999@meadville.edu SUMMARY:Spring tuition and fees due DESCRIPTION: URL:https://meadville.edu/event/spring-tuition-and-fees-due/ CATEGORIES:Academic Calendar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260302T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260302T180000 DTSTAMP:20260409T155622 CREATED:20260302T170952Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260302T170952Z UID:10000073-1772470800-1772474400@meadville.edu SUMMARY:Graduate Vespers DESCRIPTION: URL:https://meadville.edu/event/graduate-vespers/ CATEGORIES:Public Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260313T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260313T120000 DTSTAMP:20260409T155622 CREATED:20260224T010220Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260224T010720Z UID:10000046-1773396000-1773403200@meadville.edu SUMMARY:Wealth in a Post-Imperial Faith: Part Two DESCRIPTION:<< Back to LIGHT Events\n \n \n\n Wealth in a Post-Imperial Faith: Part Two\n\n March 13\n @\n10:00 am\n –\n12:00 pm\n \nJoin the Global Connections Office at the Unitarian Universalist Association and the Leadership Institute for Growth\, Healing\, and Transformation at Meadville Lombard for this three-part series focusing on wealth in North American Unitarian Universalism. We’ll take a conversational approach to various topics including classism in North American U/Uism\, charitable giving from congregations\, church endowments\, community partnerships\, reconciliation\, and reparations. The series will include presentation\, discussion\, and how-to’s of changing wealth practices with leaders across fields of ministry and philanthropy. \nBenevolent Intentions: What Do We Want Our History to Do to Us?\nIn “Benevolent Intentions: Decolonizing the Religious Liberal Imperial Mind\, an American Story\,” Rev. Fred Muir traces the interwoven history of US imperialism and UU evangelization. Exploring themes of democracy as missionary work\, American and UU exceptionalism\, and the history of eugenics\, Muir exposes religiously inflected thinking and actions undertaken by UU faith and political leaders with intentions of civilizing the “other.” Join us as we hear from Rev. Muir and Rev. Joan Javier Duval\, who serve together as UUA Ambassadors to the Philippines\, about this research and the importance of asking the question of faith\, “What do we want our history to do to us?” \nPresenters:\n\nFredric Muir\, Minister Emeritus\, UU Church of Annapolis; UUA co-ambassador to the UU Church of the Philippines\nRev. Joan Javier-Duval\, Minister\, Unitarian Church of Montpelier; UUA co-ambassador to the UU Church of the Philippines\n\nNOTE: Participants are welcome to email global@uua.org if you’re interested in a free copy of Rev. Fred Muir’s new book “Benevolent Intentions: Decolonizing the Religious Liberal Imperial Mind\, an American Story” \n \n Registration\n \n\n Categories:\n LIGHT Courses\n\n \n Add to calendar \n \n \n \n\n\n Google Calendar\n\n\n iCalendar\n\n\n Outlook 365\n\n\n Outlook Live\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Wealth in a Post-Imperial Faith: Part One \n\n\n \n The Third Act: Redefining Ourselves as We Age URL:https://meadville.edu/event/wealth-in-a-post-imperial-faith-part-two/ CATEGORIES:LIGHT Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://meadville.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/wealth-in-post-imperial-faith-16-9.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260315 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260316 DTSTAMP:20260409T155622 CREATED:20260225T231857Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260225T231857Z UID:10000054-1773532800-1773619199@meadville.edu SUMMARY:Spring grades due DESCRIPTION: URL:https://meadville.edu/event/spring-grades-due-2/ CATEGORIES:Academic Calendar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260316 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260321 DTSTAMP:20260409T155622 CREATED:20260225T214021Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260225T214034Z UID:10000049-1773619200-1774051199@meadville.edu SUMMARY:Spring Break DESCRIPTION: URL:https://meadville.edu/event/spring-break/ CATEGORIES:Academic Calendar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260323 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260502 DTSTAMP:20260409T155622 CREATED:20260226T024347Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260226T024347Z UID:10000056-1774224000-1777679999@meadville.edu SUMMARY:Summer registration for ALL students DESCRIPTION: URL:https://meadville.edu/event/summer-registration-for-all-students/ CATEGORIES:Academic Calendar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260324T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260324T130000 DTSTAMP:20260409T155622 CREATED:20260224T003350Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260224T004338Z UID:10000043-1774350000-1774357200@meadville.edu SUMMARY:The Third Act: Redefining Ourselves as We Age DESCRIPTION:<< Back to LIGHT Events\n \n \n\n The Third Act: Redefining Ourselves as We Age\n\n March 24\n @\n11:00 am\n –\n1:00 pm\n \n Rev. Dr. Clare ButterfieldFree \nMany clergy and other working professionals have been privileged to enjoy long\, stimulating\, and maybe even impactful careers. Work has brought economic benefits\, and it has helped to shape a sense of identity. Retirement—our Third Act—can be liberating but also complex and challenging! \nYou’re invited to join Rev. Dr. Clare Butterfield\, spiritual director and former executive director of Faith in Place\, for a guided and grounded program to begin to look back on what you’ve accomplished and begin to look ahead to what comes next. Clare will lead you through a time of conversation and reflection\, and will share about “The Third Act\,” a 9-month guided program starting in Fall 2026 of reflection on service\, wise discernment\, and planning for continued meaning and purpose through retirement and beyond. \nCo-sponsored by The Garrett Collective. \n \n Register for third act\n \n\n Categories:\n LIGHT Courses\n\n \n Add to calendar \n \n \n \n\n\n Google Calendar\n\n\n iCalendar\n\n\n Outlook 365\n\n\n Outlook Live\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Tending the Wounded Spirit: Trauma-Informed Spiritual Direction \n\n\n \n Pilgrimage in Kildare\, Ireland URL:https://meadville.edu/event/the-third-act-redefining-ourselves-as-we-age/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:LIGHT Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://meadville.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/winding-fall-path.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260409T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260409T200000 DTSTAMP:20260409T155623 CREATED:20260304T205146Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260408T185555Z UID:10000074-1775755800-1775764800@meadville.edu SUMMARY:Trauma-Informed Healthy Boundaries: Day One DESCRIPTION:<< Back to LIGHT Events\n \n \n\n Trauma-Informed Healthy Boundaries: Day One\n\n April 9\n @\n5:30 pm\n –\n8:00 pm\n \nWith Kathryn House ($145) \nWorkshop for leaders who want to engage the significance of healthy boundaries for professional and personal lives and articulate how they can create and sustain boundaries in their own contexts of vocational significance. Fulfills UUMA continuing education requirement. \nAre your boundaries clear-cut and well-defined or fuzzy and fading into the distance? Can you tell where you end and others begin? Do your boundaries support your commitments to nurturing flourishing and life-giving ministries or are they in need of bolstering and renewal? This workshop is grounded in a trauma-informed approach to creating and sustaining healthy boundaries and will utilize practical theological methods of reflection\, collaboration\, and strategizing for future action. \n \n Registration Closed\n \n\n Categories:\n LIGHT Courses\n\n \n Add to calendar \n \n \n \n\n\n Google Calendar\n\n\n iCalendar\n\n\n Outlook 365\n\n\n Outlook Live\n\n\n\n\n\n\n The Third Act: Redefining Ourselves as We Age \n\n\n \n Trauma-Informed Healthy Boundaries: Day Two URL:https://meadville.edu/event/trauma-informed-healthy-boundaries-day-one/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:LIGHT Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://meadville.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/boundary-e1753226599182.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260410T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260410T123000 DTSTAMP:20260409T155623 CREATED:20260304T205833Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260408T190352Z UID:10000075-1775811600-1775824200@meadville.edu SUMMARY:Trauma-Informed Healthy Boundaries: Day Two DESCRIPTION:<< Back to LIGHT Events\n \n \n\n Trauma-Informed Healthy Boundaries: Day Two\n\n April 10\n @\n9:00 am\n –\n12:30 pm\n \nWith Kathryn House ($145) \nWorkshop for leaders who want to engage the significance of healthy boundaries for professional and personal lives and articulate how they can create and sustain boundaries in their own contexts of vocational significance. Fulfills UUMA continuing education requirement. \nAre your boundaries clear-cut and well-defined or fuzzy and fading into the distance? Can you tell where you end and others begin? Do your boundaries support your commitments to nurturing flourishing and life-giving ministries or are they in need of bolstering and renewal? This workshop is grounded in a trauma-informed approach to creating and sustaining healthy boundaries and will utilize practical theological methods of reflection\, collaboration\, and strategizing for future action. \n\n Categories:\n LIGHT Courses\n\n \n Add to calendar \n \n \n \n\n\n Google Calendar\n\n\n iCalendar\n\n\n Outlook 365\n\n\n Outlook Live\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Trauma-Informed Healthy Boundaries: Day One \n\n\n \n Wealth in a Post-Imperial Faith: Part Three URL:https://meadville.edu/event/trauma-informed-healthy-boundaries-day-two/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:LIGHT Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://meadville.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/boundary-e1753226599182.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260416T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260416T150000 DTSTAMP:20260409T155623 CREATED:20260224T010922Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260224T011335Z UID:10000047-1776344400-1776351600@meadville.edu SUMMARY:Wealth in a Post-Imperial Faith: Part Three DESCRIPTION:<< Back to LIGHT Events\n \n \n\n Wealth in a Post-Imperial Faith: Part Three\n\n April 16\n @\n1:00 pm\n –\n3:00 pm\n \nJoin the Global Connections Office at the Unitarian Universalist Association and the Leadership Institute for Growth\, Healing\, and Transformation at Meadville Lombard for this three-part series focusing on wealth in North American Unitarian Universalism. We’ll take a conversational approach to various topics including classism in North American U/Uism\, charitable giving from congregations\, church endowments\, community partnerships\, reconciliation\, and reparations. The series will include presentation\, discussion\, and how-to’s of changing wealth practices with leaders across fields of ministry and philanthropy. \n Liberating Wealth: Lessons from Philanthropy on Decolonizing for Self- and Communal-Determination\nWhat can people of faith learn from the philanthropic sector about how to liberate and decolonize wealth? What does it look like to ensure that practices and processes are mutually beneficial and support self- and communal-determination of impacted people and places? Join us for an interactive program with spiritually-grounded philanthropy colleagues Alicia Forde (Texas Methodist Foundation)\, Rich Havard (Decolonizing Wealth Project)\, and Syma Mirza (Neighborhood Funders Group) as they share stories from the field and invite us to reflect on what it takes to liberate wealth in our congregations and communities. \nPresenters:\n\nAlicia Forde\, Texas Methodist Foundation\nRich Havard\, Director\, Youth Mental Health Fund // Decolonizing Wealth Project\nSyma Mirza\, Neighborhood Funders Group\n\n \n Registration\n \n\n Categories:\n LIGHT Courses\n\n \n Add to calendar \n \n \n \n\n\n Google Calendar\n\n\n iCalendar\n\n\n Outlook 365\n\n\n Outlook Live\n\n\n\n\n\n\n The Third Act: Redefining Ourselves as We Age \n\n\n \n Pilgrimage in Kildare\, Ireland URL:https://meadville.edu/event/wealth-in-a-post-imperial-faith-part-three/ CATEGORIES:LIGHT Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://meadville.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/wealth-in-post-imperial-faith-16-9.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260502 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260503 DTSTAMP:20260409T155623 CREATED:20260226T024431Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260226T024431Z UID:10000057-1777680000-1777766399@meadville.edu SUMMARY:Summer registration closes DESCRIPTION: URL:https://meadville.edu/event/summer-registration-closes/ CATEGORIES:Academic Calendar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260502 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260530 DTSTAMP:20260409T155623 CREATED:20260226T024517Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260226T024517Z UID:10000058-1777680000-1780099199@meadville.edu SUMMARY:Summer late registration (additional fees apply) DESCRIPTION: URL:https://meadville.edu/event/summer-late-registration-additional-fees-apply/ CATEGORIES:Academic Calendar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260502T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260502T130000 DTSTAMP:20260409T155623 CREATED:20260316T211319Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260325T214122Z UID:10000076-1777723200-1777726800@meadville.edu SUMMARY:Commissioning of the Spiritual Direction Formation & Certification Program DESCRIPTION:<< Back to Public Events Calendar\n \n\n Commissioning of the Spiritual Direction Formation & Certification Program\n\n May 2\n @\n12:00 pm\n –\n1:00 pm\n \n \nThe commissioning class\, trustees\, and staff invite you to virtually witness\, celebrate\, and bless the 3rd Commissioning of the Spiritual Direction Formation & Certification program at LIGHT\, Meadville Lombard Theological School’s lifelong-learning institute. \nSaturday\, May 2\, 2026\, Noon Central\nhttps://meadville-edu.zoom.us/my/tandirogers \nThis Zoom link for the Commissioning Ceremony is public. \nAfter two years of study\, practicum\, and peer supervision\, these 22 individuals are ready to be Spiritual Directors certified by LIGHT at MLTS:  \n  \nAllison Barrett \nCharla Bregante \nClare Butterfield \nIsabel Call \nWekoye SarahRuth Hodgkinson Davis \nLindsay Donnelly-Bullington \nAntoinette Hollamon \nHaley Smith Kingsland \nAnna Knapp \nPratik Mamtora \nDiane Melvin \nLinda Miner \nSophie Morse \nAndrew Roach \nEmmie Schlobohm \nLeala Skwara \nKelly Stokes \nSam Trumbore \nNatasha Walker \nPippin Witaker \nKim Wildszewski \nGeorge “Woody” Wood \n  \nMay they bless the world! \n\n Categories:\n Academic Calendar\, Public Event \n\n \n Online \n \n\n\n\n \n \n \n\n\n \n Add to calendar \n \n \n \n\n\n Google Calendar\n\n\n iCalendar\n\n\n Outlook 365\n\n\n Outlook Live URL:https://meadville.edu/event/commissioning-of-the-spiritual-direction-formation-certification-program/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Academic Calendar,Public Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://meadville.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Commissioning-evergreen.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260502T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260502T130000 DTSTAMP:20260409T155623 CREATED:20260316T213836Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260325T214158Z UID:10000077-1777723200-1777726800@meadville.edu SUMMARY:Commissioning of the Spiritual Direction Formation & Certification Program DESCRIPTION:Commissioning of the Spiritual Direction Formation & Certification Program\nSaturday\, May 2\, 2026\, 12:00 pm CT\n \nThe commissioning class\, trustees\, and staff invite you to virtually witness\, celebrate\, and bless the 3rd Commissioning of the Spiritual Direction Formation & Certification program at LIGHT\, Meadville Lombard Theological School’s lifelong-learning institute. \nSaturday\, May 2\, 2026\, Noon Central\nhttps://meadville-edu.zoom.us/my/tandirogers \nThis Zoom link for the Commissioning Ceremony is public. \nAfter two years of study\, practicum\, and peer supervision\, these 22 individuals are ready to be Spiritual Directors certified by LIGHT at MLTS: \n  \nAllison Barrett \nCharla Bregante \nClare Butterfield \nIsabel Call \nWekoye SarahRuth Hodgkinson Davis \nLindsay Donnelly-Bullington \nAntoinette Hollamon \nHaley Smith Kingsland \nAnna Knapp \nPratik Mamtora \nDiane Melvin \nLinda Miner \nSophie Morse \nAndrew Roach \nEmmie Schlobohm \nLeala Skwara \nKelly Stokes \nSam Trumbore \nNatasha Walker \nPippin Witaker \nKim Wildszewski \nGeorge “Woody” Wood \n  \nMay they bless the world! \n  \nAdd to calendar \nGoogle Calendar \niCalendar \nOutlook 365 \nOutlook Live URL:https://meadville.edu/event/commissioning-of-the-spiritual-direction-program/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:LIGHT Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://meadville.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Commissioning-evergreen.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260508T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260508T235959 DTSTAMP:20260409T155623 CREATED:20260225T214413Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260302T170220Z UID:10000050-1778198400-1778284799@meadville.edu SUMMARY:Graduates: All work is due DESCRIPTION: URL:https://meadville.edu/event/graduates-all-work-is-due-2/ CATEGORIES:Academic Calendar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260508T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260508T235959 DTSTAMP:20260409T155623 CREATED:20260225T214525Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260302T170318Z UID:10000051-1778198400-1778284799@meadville.edu SUMMARY:Graduates: Books due in the library & MLTS debts MUST be paid DESCRIPTION: URL:https://meadville.edu/event/graduates-books-due-in-the-library-mlts-debts-must-be-paid-2/ CATEGORIES:Academic Calendar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260508T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260508T235959 DTSTAMP:20260409T155623 CREATED:20260225T221844Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260302T170518Z UID:10000053-1778198400-1778284799@meadville.edu SUMMARY:Spring term ends DESCRIPTION: URL:https://meadville.edu/event/spring-term-ends-2/ CATEGORIES:Academic Calendar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260513T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260513T235959 DTSTAMP:20260409T155623 CREATED:20260225T214645Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260302T170557Z UID:10000052-1778630400-1778716799@meadville.edu SUMMARY:Graduate grades are due to the registrar DESCRIPTION: URL:https://meadville.edu/event/graduate-grades-are-due-to-the-registrar-2/ CATEGORIES:Academic Calendar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260525 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260526 DTSTAMP:20260409T155623 CREATED:20260226T024546Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260226T024546Z UID:10000059-1779667200-1779753599@meadville.edu SUMMARY:Memorial Day DESCRIPTION: URL:https://meadville.edu/event/memorial-day/ CATEGORIES:Academic Calendar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260531T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260531T170000 DTSTAMP:20260409T155623 CREATED:20260302T170806Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260302T170806Z UID:10000072-1780236000-1780246800@meadville.edu SUMMARY:Commencement DESCRIPTION: URL:https://meadville.edu/event/commencement-2/ CATEGORIES:Academic Calendar,Public Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260602 DTSTAMP:20260409T155623 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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260712T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260716T235959 DTSTAMP:20260409T155623 CREATED:20260109T003243Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260404T201328Z UID:10000039-1783814400-1784246399@meadville.edu SUMMARY:Pilgrimage in Kildare\, Ireland DESCRIPTION:<< Back to LIGHT Events\n \n \n\n Pilgrimage in Kildare\, Ireland\n\n July 12\n –\n July 16\n \nConnecting with the Inspiration and Creativity of Brigid\, Goddess and Saint\nFacilitated by: Angie Pierce Jennings and Nicole Kirk \nArriving Sunday\, July 12\, with facilitated programming July 13\, 14\, 15. Departure July 16. \nRegistration\n\nEarly Bird Registration extended to Friday\, April 17: $1\,000\nRegular pricing for program (register by May 15): $1\,200\nDeposit of $500 upon registration with the remainder due May 15.\nLodging with hot breakfast starts at $515* for 4 nights at Silken Thomas (see below for details)\nRegistration cost includes three days of facilitated programming in Ireland (including lunches)\, as well as pre- and post-retreat online sessions.\n\n \n register for pilgrimage in kildare\, ireland\n \nThis 3-day\, 4-night spiritual pilgrimage will take place in Kildare\, Ireland\, centering the country’s beloved Brigid. The Irish government’s recent decision to make Saint Brigid’s Day a National Holiday is sparking renewed interest and creative expression around Brigid. This pilgrimage is a lifelong learning and formation opportunity to connect within the cultural context of Ireland\, and specifically the historical and spiritual places and landscapes associated with Brigid of Kildare. Facilitated programming in Ireland begins at 10:30 a.m. at the Solas Bhríde Centre each morning on July 13\, 14\, 15. Plans include several opportunities for light to moderate pilgrimage walks throughout Kildare Town. \n*Registrants are responsible for the cost and arrangements of their flights\, transportation to and from Kildare to the airport\, lodging\, breakfasts and dinners\, and travel insurance. \n\nOvernight accommodation\, including a hot breakfast\, can be made directly at the historic Silken Thomas hotel in Kildare (See Silken Thomas for current pricing and room availability.) Registrants can book a single room (with or without breakfast included). Or if traveling with a partner\, family\, or friends\, registrants might consider booking a double or triple room together at Silken Thomas (or another lodging of your choice). Silken Thomas also provides a resource page with helpful information on booking a taxi or traveling to Kildare by Dublin Coach or Irish Rail.\nThe Solas Bhríde Centre\, where our facilitated programming begins each morning\, is a 15-minute walk from Silken Thomas along St. Brigid’s Trail. \n\nOur time in Ireland will include:\n\nFacilitated spiritual practices at the Solas Bhríde Centre (including outdoor labyrinth walks\, prayerful meditation time with Brigid’s perpetual flame\, creative journaling\, pilgrimage photography as spiritual practice).\nContemplative pilgrimage walks to two of Brigid’s Holy Wells in Kildare.\nVisit St. Brigid’s Cathedral (the site of Brigid’s double monastery)\, Round Tower\, High Cross\, and Ancient Fire Temple.\nView art inspired by Brigid at her churches\, on street murals and sculptures throughout the town\, while practicing guided visio divina (sacred seeing).\nVisit St. Brigid’s Parish Church\, spend time viewing and reflecting on the specially commissioned icon of St Brigid\, and Brigid’s bone fragment relic.\nReflection on Brigid’s association with Fire\, Water\, Poetry\, Healing\, Peacemaking\, and her connection with land and animals.\nContemplate some of the Carmina Gadelica: Charms of the Gaels\, Hymns and Incantations associated with Brigid.\nRead and reflect on stories from Cogitosis’s Life of St Brigid\, written around 650 CE\, including the legend of her cloak (which is the Land of the Curragh Plains).\nWalk to all three medieval abbeys in Kildare (the Black Abbey\, the Grey Abby\, and the White Abbey).\nConsideration of our inward and outward spiritual journeys as we get to know Brigid.\nOpen time for prayer and poetry writing\, journaling and reflection\, holy wandering\, rest\, and social dinners. In mid-July\, Kildare experiences nearly 16 hours of daylight.\n\nPre- and post- retreat online gatherings:\nTwo weeks before traveling\, we will gather online for a pre-retreat session. During this session we will have an opportunity to introduce ourselves and share briefly about what draws us to Brigid and to this retreat. We will also discuss some creative journaling ideas and photography as spiritual practice.  \nTwo weeks after our return home we will gather online once more for a reflection and integration session of meaning-making. \nWe will use the Populi online learning platform\, where several video and reading resources about Brigid will be provided to registrants as they get to know Brigid. Course materials available on Populi June 1. \nIf the minimum number of participants is not met\, registrants will be notified by June 1\, and all LIGHT fees will be refunded. Participants are encouraged to make refundable hotel reservations and purchase refundable or transferable flights. \nRecommended Books:\nHardiman\, Josephine\, author and illustrator. The Book of Kildare. Kildare\, Ireland: Kildare Library Service\, Creative Ireland\, Kildare County Council\, and Brigid 1500\, 2023.            https://www.josephinehardiman.ie/the-book-of-kildare.   \nMinehan\, Sister Rita\, CSB. Rekindling the Flame: A Pilgrimage in the Footsteps of Brigid of Kildare. Kildare\, Ireland: Solas Bhríde\, 2022. https://solasbhride.ie/shop/. \nFacilitator bio:\n \nAngie Pierce Jennings holds a Master of Arts in Religion from Meadville Lombard Theological School and a master’s in psychology from the University of Northern Iowa. She has facilitated numerous spiritual programs over the years\, including recent creative offerings on spiritual art journaling and nature photography as spiritual practice for LIGHT. Her connection with Celtic spirituality is ever deepening\, and during one of her recent pilgrimages to Ireland\, she witnessed and experienced the devotion to Brigid still very much thriving in the land of Kildare\, the very place where Saint Brigid founded her double monastery over 1500 years ago. Angie is interested in embodied theology\, pilgrimage photography as a way of doing theology\, and the ways in which spirituality and creativity interact with place. All of these themes are woven into this upcoming pilgrimage\, with Brigid – Goddess and Saint\, at the center.  \n \nNicole C. Kirk is the Frank and Alice Schulman Chair of UU History at Meadville Lombard and a UU minister\, and she serves part-time as the Program Minister at All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa. She is a popular speaker and at Meadville Lombard\, she teaches popular electives on nature writing\, nature spirituality\, sacred places\, and pilgrimage. Her course on pilgrimages centers on embodied meaning-making to help students understand how moving through landscape shapes spiritual experience. Her first book\, Wanamaker’s Temple\, explores religion in an iconic American department store\, and she is currently completing a second book on American railroad circuses and religion—work that reflects her abiding fascination with finding the religion in unexpected places. 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