At the end of the Providence Event in June, that has since been cancelled due to Covid 19, there was to be a Gathering of the Sisters under 55 on that last Sunday afternoon. I know that the Board and I were both really happy that our younger, newer members would have the opportunity to gather together and form relationships…
The Providence Event, entitled “Providence ~ Where Justice and Radical Hope Meet!” originally planned by the Women of Providence in Collaboration to take place June 12-14, 2020 at the Kearns Spirituality Center in Allison Park, Pennsylvania, has been rescheduled for February of 2021. The members of the WPC Governing Board also have decided to recreate the event in a new…
As many of you know, and contributed to, we did a Survey of Sisters and Associates in our member congregations this year to determine whether we should continue to hold Providence Events. Many of you completed the survey and gave us very good responses. These were collated for the annual board meeting and used to guide the board in deliberations…
This Special Issue of Collaboration highlights our wonderful Providence Event, June 15-17, 2018 in Allison Park, PA. The Sisters of Divine Providence welcomed us to their lovely campus and particularly to Kearns Spirituality Center where the conference was held. Over 100 attendees enjoyed the presentations by our keynote speaker, Megan McKenna. She helped us all explore the message of peace in…
The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos was written by Brian Swimme, a speaker at Providence Event 2008. It is available from Amazon. Brian Thomas Swimme is a professor of cosmology at the California Institute of Integral Studies, in San Francisco. His department, “Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness” (PCC), is the only graduate program in the western world that places equal emphasis…