Past Events

Spirituality and Community in a Time of Loss at St. Andrew's United Church. Admission by donation. Merton scholar Doug Christie will examine the place of darkness in our lives and ask what it can mean for us to enter and inhabit this vast space of unknowing and discover there not simply bewilderment but something Thomas Merton called "the hidden ground of love." Douglas E. Christie, Ph.D., is Professor of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. A long-time…

The Desert Within at St. Andrew's United Church. Cost:$60 To register: contact Susan Cowan at tmsc@telus.net or 604-988-8835 What does it mean to enter the desert? To seek "the desert within", that vast open space the Christian mystics experienced at the very ground of the soul where the human person encounters the divine? This retreat will draw upon the image of the desert (long important to both Jewish and Christian religious identities and central to the Christian mystical tradition) to…