Sunday - Nov. 21st 1:00 - 2:30 pm 

Join Jean Feraca and her guest Gigi Ross for an important conversation on gender and spirituality.

In Jean's own words: "If you ever have the good fortune to hear Gigi Ross sing the Negro Spiritual, “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child,” you will know instantly that you are in the presence of a person of extraordinary depth. Pain sometimes really does refine the soul. Gigi was left in the hospital as an abandoned foundling. Later in life, he searched for his birth mother and, discovering she had terminal cancer, helped her to die. As a member of the 2022 Cohort of the Living School, I feel privileged to have Gigi as my teacher. When Gigi agreed to be a guest on Crossing the Great Divides to talk about the new gender revolution, I was overjoyed. This is a program you won’t want to miss". 

Gigi Ross - What is it like to be a black person who doesn't fit neatly into society's boxes?—Abandoned at birth, Gigi Ross was a foster child at 3 days old, a graduate of an Ivy League law school who lived homeless for 6 years, and identifies as male while living in a female body. Gigi was unclassifiable until a new generation of young people made it okay to be both male and female. Anthropologists have been telling us for decades that race is just a construct. Now we’re hearing the same thing said about gender. But if gender is just a construct, does that mean we’re all on a sliding scale?  

Sunday December 12, 2021 1:00 to 2:30 pm

Sr. Gabriele Uhlein - In 1219, in the middle of the Fifth Crusade, Francis of Assisi dared to cross enemy lines, against all odds the two leaders met and became friends in the course of a lively exchange. When Francis returned home, he wrote prayers inspired by his exposure to Islam and re-wrote his rule. Today, with enemy lines being drawn everywhere, the story of "the Saint and the Sultan" can give us hope, and instruction for our own lives.

Sunday January 23, 2022 1:00 to 2:30 pm

Paul Knitter - Is it possible to be both Buddhist and Catholic at the same time? Paul Knitter thinks so. After many decades of study and prayer, he now calls himself "a Buddhist Catholic" and is the co-author of Jesus and Buddha: Friends in Conversation. For many years, with numerous writings and teachings Knitter has been exploring how the religious communities of the world can cooperate in promoting human and ecological well-being. 

We are still in a time of pandemic and our divisions have never been sharper. In this time, let us dare to begin again, to lock arms and hearts and take up the task, impossible though it may seem, to make ourselves whole again.

Session & Pricing Information:

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Wake Up the Writer Within ~ Weekly! (Online)

with Joanne Nelson

Tuesdays beginning October 5th

$10 per session

Tao Te Ching: Offering a Way Forward (Online)

with Ron Moor

Wednesdays from 10:30am to noon

$10 per session

with Jean Feraca

Sunday November 21, 2021 1:00 - 2:30 pm

$25 or $60 for the Series

The Sliding Scale of Race and Gender Identity in the

modern world with Gigi Ross

“Living a Life of Love”

with Kara Vangen and Kathleen Graham

Sunday December 5th, 3:00 – 6:30 pm

$30 (Scholarship funds available)

December 10 - 12, 2021

with Sarah Ritter & Elaine Jones

$150 plus materials fee ($15), meals and lodging

Online $105

with Jean Feraca

Sunday December 12, 2021 1:00 - 2:30 pm

$25 or $60 for the Series

"The Saint and the Sultan" an inspiring 12th Century story of crossing "enemy" lines to create what seemed

impossible, with Sr. Gabriele Uhlein.

with Nancee Nystrom

December 17-19, 2021

$200, plus meals and lodging

with Sr. Gabriele Uhlein

December 21, 2021: 10:00 am – 4:30 pm

$50

$250 or $50/day, plus meals and lodging

2022 PROGRAMS

A Christine Center on-line Seasons of Deepening opportunity (Online)

A year of depth and Spirit-Tending in good company ~ The second Sunday of each month from 3:00 to 4:30pm.

Hosted by Sr. Gabriele Uhlein

$75 per season (3 sessions) or $240 for the whole series (12 sessions) ~ a $60 discount See full calendar by clicking title to view the program page

Holy and Amazing: Celebrating Franciscan Women Saints (Online)

A special 6-session series online – The fourth Saturday of each month from 10:00 to 11:30am.

Hosted by Sr. Gabriele Uhlein

$25 per session or $120 for the ~ a $30 discount

January 6 – 9, 2022 (Thursday through Sunday)

with Kali Higgins, Lety Seibel, Kyia Downing, & Christin Ament

$333, plus meals and lodging

“Holy-Grounding: Dreams, Angels & Burning Bushes”

with Sr. Gabriele Uhlein

$75 for 3 Winter Sessions

or $240 Special for Year Long Series

$80, plus meals and lodging

with Tracy Chipman

$150, plus meals and lodging

with Jean Feraca

Sunday January 23, 2022 1:00 - 2:30 pm

$25 or $60 for the Series

"Jesus and Buddha: Friends in Conversation" theologian Paul Knitter helps us find shared reality a across religious lines.

January 28-30, 2022

with Ron Moor

$150, plus meals and lodging

Thursday Feb. 4 at 5:00 pm, through Sunday Feb. 5, 2022 at 1:00 pm

with Lety Seibel and Tamarack Song

$225 per person, plus meals and lodging

$175 per person for online participation

February 18-20, 2022

with Kim Lovejoy LICSW, SEP & Christine Lord LICSW, SEP

$265, plus meals and lodging

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