Body, Heart, Spirit: Integrative Health

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Body, Heart, Spirit: Integrative Health will be a presentation and conversation about: Integrative health; the relationship between health, the human experience and the environment The encouragement of participants, as medical patients, to make integrative and proactive choices that promote fullness of health and well-being in body and spirit The balance between traditional and complementary alternative modes of medical treatment Speaker David Rakel, M.D. is professor and chair of the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at UW-Madison, founder of the Integrative Health Program, recipient of the Gold Foundation’s Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award (the school’s highest honor for …

Sacred Citizenship

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Sacred Citizenship:  The Connection between Politics and Spirituality Holy Wisdom Monastery is hosting a series of programs (April 10, May 1, October 9, October 30, 2018) designed to explore the interface between politics and the spiritual convictions that undergird our commitment to peace, justice and equality. Regardless of whether or not we identify ourselves with a particular religious tradition, being a person of faith in today’s politically divisive climate means honoring our responsibilities to one another, the environment, our country and our world. Come for one or more sessions. Each program will begin with prayer and dinner, followed by speakers, …

Sacred Citizenship

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Sacred Citizenship: The Connection between Politics and Spirituality Holy Wisdom Monastery is hosting a series of programs (April 10, May 1, October 9, October 30, 2018) designed to explore the interface between politics and the spiritual convictions that undergird our commitment to peace, justice and equality. Regardless of whether we identify with a particular religious tradition, being a person of faith in today’s politically divisive climate means honoring our responsibilities to one another, the environment, our country and our world. Come for one or more sessions. Each program will begin with prayer and dinner, followed by speakers, resource sharing and …

Sister Lynne, hoe in hand, working in garden, caring for the earth

Why care for the earth?

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Why care for the earth? Monday morning, while I am working in the garden, a turkey hen appears from behind the compost pile, shepherding two very young chicks across the grass toward the garden. The hen stops and turns back when she sees me, but the chicks continue ahead and take cover under the rhubarb plants. As I walk away trying not to scare them, the mother clucks softly to her chicks and they come running out of the grass and into the woods with her. Tuesday morning I see them again from my office window as they enter the …