Sarabinh Levy-Brightman and Charlie Stang are among the organizers of an upcoming conference at Harvard Divinity School, and we are invited. You can speak to either one of them on Sunday for more information, and you can register by going here: Information and Registration for HDS Conference

The 3rd Annual
New England Anglican Studies (NEAS) Conference
April 20, 2013

Keynote Speaker: The Most Rev. Frank T. Griswold III, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, 1998-2006

Contemporary Christianity has seen a resurgence of interest in contemplation: the retrieval of the rich resources of the pre-modern Christian contemplative traditions, as well as the exploration of contemplative practices in other religious traditions. Together these trends enliven contemporary prayer and practice. Common to all these efforts, however, is a conviction that contemplation is not a flight from the world and its many challenges, but rather a mode of delivering oneself and others into the world anew, renewed, and ever ready to face those very challenges. This conference aims to investigate and deepen this conviction by asking what contemplation is, and how it acts, both on the practitioner and his or her world. What can contemplatives and activists learn from each other? Might contemplation be a form of activism? Might the struggle for social justice be a form of contemplation? What other forms of religious “action” might be shaped or driven by contemplation? Given our investment in both the contemplative life and social activism, we Anglicans aim to convene this conversation and to ground it in our tradition, but also to widen it to include other voices and other traditions.

Registration: 8am
Opening Remarks: 9am
Closing Eucharist Concludes: between 6 and 7 pm
Harvard Divinity School
Cambridge, MA

Hosted by the HDS Episcopal/Anglican Fellowship and the Episcopal Chaplaincy at Harvard.