Rolling Ridge Study Retreat

Rolling Ridge Study Retreat

Community

Connected to a wide circle of those who share a deep longing for a more authentic, nature-connected and soul-infused life.

Rolling Ridge Study Retreat

Nature

Located on a 1600-acre nature preserve owned by the Rolling Ridge Conservancy and protected by a conservation easement with the Appalachian Trail Conservancy.

Rolling Ridge Study Retreat

Soul

Exploring the connections of spirit, faith and the wild earth.

News and Happenings

An Alliance of Love, Power & Justice

An Alliance of Love, Power & Justice

February 2017 In this troubled and troubling world we are continually forced to choose sides or else risk indifference or complicity by virtue of inaction.  But taking sides also perpetuates a society of winners and losers, of “us vs. them.”  How can one seek peace...

Be Ye Tenderhearted

Be Ye Tenderhearted

Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other (Ephesians 4:32) I know that I have life only insofar as I have love. I have no love except it come from Thee. Help me, please, to carry this candle against the wind. – Wendell Berry Three years ago this...

Sitting on the Rim

Sitting on the Rim

Ancient well at Kom Ombo,  Egypt.  Photo used with permission from AS-I-WALK. I expect that 60 miles away, the nation’s capital is vibrating: filling with celebrators and protesters: the triumphant and the grieving, the jubilant and the angry.  I expect that it is...

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“You are in this time of the interimRolling Ridge Study Retreat
Where everything seems withheld.
The path you took to get here has washed out.
The way forward is still concealed from you.
The old is not old enough to have died away
The new is still too young to be born.”

-John O’Donohue