Hybrid: Jesus in Nature: Monastic Images of an Earthy Christ
With Samuel Torvend
April 26, 2025
The call to care for our common home, the earth, invites Christians to consider the image of Jesus who was and is among us – in, with, and through nature’s seasons. In this retreat, participants will consider the work of Benedict of Nursia, the Venerable Bede, Walafrid Strabo, and Hildegard of Bingen – Benedictines whose writings, music, and art reveal an earthy Christ, the center of our worship, prayer, and ethics.
This retreat is for anyone who is committed to caring for the earth and anyone who celebrates nature’s seasons and the seasons of the liturgical year.
About the Facilitator
Samuel Torvend
Samuel Torvend is an Oblate of St. Benedict, Faculty Fellow in Humanities at Pacific Lutheran University, and Episcopal priest in the Diocese of Olympia. His most recent book is the highly acclaimed Monastic Ecological Wisdom: A Living Tradition (Liturgical Press, 2023).
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