• Salva Terra:
    A Vision towards Earth’s Healing

    We seek transformation in our lives and world

    • By remembering life’s sacredness
    • By addressing life’s brokenness
    • By serving earth’s oneness

    Inspired by the vision of John Philip Newell and Ali Newell who speak from within the Christian household, we journey in communion with humanity’s great wisdom traditions. We seek to listen to the Spirit at the heart of the human soul and the universe.

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  • The Iron Lady or The Lady?

    Originally published at the Huffington Post

    The Iron Lady and The Lady appeared within days of each other. These two newly released films, one about Great Britain’s Margaret Thatcher, the other about Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi, consider the lives of two extraordinary political leaders. In terms of production and acting, there is no real comparison between the films. Michelle Yeoh as Aung San Suu Kyi is very good but Meryl Streep as Maggie Thatcher is, as ever, in a league of her own. But the films raise questions for us other than artistic excellence. What, for instance, is the type of leadership that we are seeking today for our nations and our world?

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  • Peace On Earth

    Originally published at the Huffington Post.

    Throughout the Western World these days, and well beyond, we hear the hope of Christmas expressed in song and word, peace on earth. But how do we turn this creed into deed? How do we move from hope to practice? Much of what we do, whether as nations and individualities, or as religions and communities, contributes to disparity and further separation in our world. How do we translate our Christmas carols of peace into commitment to action for peace?

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  • The Praying for Peace Initiative

    In January this year I was part of creating the Praying for Peace Initiative. Our founding meeting happened just outside Santa Fe. That same evening we gazed across the high desert landscape of New Mexico and saw the distant lights of the Los Alamos National Laboratory where the atom bombs that killed hundreds of thousands of Japanese in the final days of World War II were designed and tested. We need to find new ways of establishing peace.

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Upcoming Events
Fri Mar 09
St Paul, Minnesota. John Philip Newell at the House of Hope Presbyterian Church
Tue Mar 13 @ 8:00PM - 10:00PM
New York City. John Philip Newell at the General Theological Seminary
Wed Mar 14
Brooklyn, New York. John Philip Newell at Bay Ridge United Methodist & The Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd
Fri Mar 16
Lexington, Kentucky. John Philip Newell at Christ Church Cathedral
Sat Mar 24 @10:00AM - 05:00PM
New York City. John Philip Newell at the Open Center
Sun Mar 25
New York City. John Philip Newell at the Sisters of Charity
Fri Apr 20
Boston, Massachusetts. John Philip Newell at Spiritual Directors International
Fri May 11
Lafayette, Indiana. John Philip Newell at Central Presbyterian
Fri May 18
Indianapolis, Indiana. John Philip Newell at St Luke's United Methodist
Fri May 25
Edinburgh, Scotland. John Philip Newell at the Celtic Spirituality Conference
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