Bishop Curry Led SpringTide Retreat in 2009
Our own Bishop Michael Curry led our second retreat in 2009, on the theme The Sermon on the Mount.

 

Blessed are they… :

  Meditations on the Sermon on the Mount

 Bishop Curry spent his sabbatical studying and reflecting upon Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. The School of Ministry is pleased that he very successfully led our 2009 SpringTide retreat, sharing his insights about the Sermon on the Mount, and encouraging us to engage in our own meditation. April 29-May 1, 2009, at Trinity Center, Salter Path.

As promised, here is the quote from the Archbishop of Canterbury, which Bishop Curry cited:

“… a unity that fundamentally exists in the shared gaze toward Christ, and through Christ to the Father. If we believe that our unity comes from that looking together into a mystery and occasionally nudging one another and saying, ‘Look at that!’ it can help us feel how the unity we enjoy is not primarily about institutional uniformity, saying the same words all the time. The unity is found in the common direction we are looking.”

by Rowan Williams, Where God Happens:  Discovering Christ in One Another (New York: New Seeds, 2005), 112-113.

 

 

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The School of Ministry

at the Northwest Regional office
of the Episcopal Diocese of NC
1901 West Market Street 
Greensboro, NC  27455  
336-273-5770

Ayliffe Mumford, Ed.D. Interim Coordinator; 
The Rt. Rev. Chip Marble, Assisting Bishop;      
Shelley Kappauf, Executive Admin. Asst.
and EfM Coordinator