Golden Thread: Accepting Application for 2025-26

Now accepting applications for the Golden Thread Group 2025-2026

This is a journey of uncovering our authentic spiritual gifts, deepening our spiritual vitality, and preparing to take our gifts into the community. The course content includes spiritual autobiographies and practices, creativity as spiritual practice, reading a series of potentially transformative books, and preparing a rule of life. In John Philip Newell’s book, Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul, he quotes Alexander John Scott: “What is most truly human, he said, is what is most divine and what is most truly divine is what is most human. A thread of the divine is woven through the fabric of the human soul and of everything that has being. This golden thread, he said, is our essence.”

Saturday August 23, 2025, is a full-day retreat and attendance is mandatory as is the closing session on Thursday, May 14,2026.

Led by Karen McClard and Jeannie Whayne

First Semester: Thursday nights, August 14 to December 18, 2025
Second Semester: Thursday nights, Jan 8, 2025 to May 14, 2026

Application Process:

As this is a small group course, enrollment is limited to ten. If you are interested in applying for this course, please email Karen McClard at karen.mclard@gmail.com for further information about application as soon as possible.

Curious about Golden Thread?

You are invited to an informal gathering on Monday, July 7th, 6:30 pm, at the home of Ann and Steve Zega to learn more about this small group spiritual journey.  Please RSVP to Karen McClard at karen.mcclard (at) gmail (dot) com.

Read Beth Maze’s thoughful reflection about her experience with Golden Thread here.