Fwd: Events at Kirkridge for Catholic Workers
Catholic Worker
From: Lydia Wylie-Kellermann <lydi...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Feb 3, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Subject: Events at Kirkridge for Catholic Workers
To: <catholicw...@gmail.com>
Hey beloved Catholic Workers,
Just sending along an email with Kirkridge Retreat and Study Center’s programs for the next 5 months. We would LOVE to have any and all of you here! As always, we can figure out how to make it work financially. Just reach out!
With love,
Lydia Wylie-Kellermann
David F. Evans
February 27-Mar 1
This retreat for Christians in solidarity with the Black liberation struggle is based on the material from David F. Evans’s book by the same name. We will learn how some of our forebearers failed the Black Freedom Movement and how we can course correct.
March 27-29
Enjoy a no-cost weekend at Kirkridge in exchange for contributing your hands and hearts to some work projects. All skills and abilities are welcome!
Bonhoeffer’s Conundrum and Ours: A Discernment Retreat
Reggie Williams and Bill Wylie-Kellermann
April 10-12
Dietrich Bonhoeffer has left behind a witness of a complicated and imperfect Christian response to fascism that can help us discern our own responses. Join us for a weekend of rich history-telling, mountain-walking, spirit-listening, song-lifting, and community-building.
Andrea Ritchie and Nichola Torbett
May 8-10
This retreat is for anyone who knows in their bones that another world is possible beyond militarized borders, policing, and prisons. We’ll be discussing Andrea Ritchie’s book by this name and engaging imagination practices toward liberatory futures.
Festival of Radical Discipleship
May 22-25
Join us for a gathering of kindred spirits rooted in the radical Christian tradition. It will be a time to remember past gospel experiments, discuss current calls to witness and work; and conspire about future collaborations. Come and join the feast!
Undoing Conquest: Inviting a Season of Origins
Kate Common
June 4-6
Focusing on healing from centuries of Christian violence, resisting the rise of Christian nationalism, and reclaiming a liberating, justice-centered faith, this retreat will explore the themes of Kate Common’s book Undoing Conquest and introduce the possibility of a liturgical Season of Origins, a practical way to grapple with the historic harms of our faith tradition.
Searching for New Suns: Engaging the Prophetic Wisdom and Imagination of Octavia E. Butler
Naomi Washington-Leapheart
June 12-14
Award-winning speculative fiction writer Octavia Estelle Butler said, “There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.” Butler’s stories, grounded in human vulnerability and agency, anticipated the chaos of our time. During this retreat, we will explore what Butler’s words can teach us about identity, survival, community, and transformation.
June 19-21
Annie Wilson and Krista Nelson
Indigenous wisdom may be our best hope for ourselves, each other, and the planet. In this retreat, participants will be introduced to grief practices in Lenape and Celtic traditions as we build relationship between our grief and the larger ecologies we inhabit.
June 26-28
Join us for our major summer fundraiser. Evenings will be spent in the barn with dancing and concerts. Days will be filled activities including gatherings around the fire pit, a silent auction, local vendors, gardening, nature walks, grazing from food trucks, and more!
Online Programming
White Antiracist Practice Groups
Wednesdays, noon-1:30pm
See Website for Dates and Facilitators
Are you a white person committed to the spiritual and practical work of dismantling white supremacy, inside yourself, in your spheres of influence, and in systems and institutions? Would you appreciate a warm, inviting space of embodied accountability and support in this work? If so, join one of our six-week White Anti Racist Practice Groups. Suggested donation of $60-480 for each series, with no one turned away for inability to donate.
First Sundays of the month, 4-5:30pm ET
Held by Nichola Torbett
Surely we are living in apocalyptic times, but what exactly is being revealed? Join us to discuss books with the power to upend our assumptions, spark our imaginations, and point us toward possible liberatory futures.
Visit our website (https://kirkridge.org/) for more online programs!
Generative Conflict: A Somatic Online Course
Thursdays, April 30-June 4, 12-1:30pm ET
With Marissa Metelica
Generative conflict is so important, but too often, societal conditioning and past traumas prevent us from embracing it. In this workshop series, participants will explore generative conflict through somatics and applied theatre. Using collaborative exercises, group challenges, and storytelling, participants will explore their skills and growing edges while learning to develop a culture of belonging for application in the larger world.
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