In our annual Glen Rose Gathering, April 19-20, we welcome this year Father Jim Conlon, the director of Sophia Center, Holy Names College in Oakland, Calif. The Sophia Center offers programs in the areas of culture and spirituality, which

encourage creativity and personal transformation. Father Conlon has entitled the retreat Unspoken Hunger: the Quest for Sacredness and Depth. Our times, says Father Conlon, are "an invitation to experience a new sense of belonging that is planetary, global and cosmic…to unite our new cosmic solidarity with the call to love and justice and an enduring belief in the possibilities of tomorrow."

Among other things, we will experience the "Cosmic Spiral Walk" in the context of the Eucharist.Father Conlon’s latest books, SACRED IMPULSE and PONDERINGS FROM THE PRECIPICE