What’s Love Got To Do With It? (Sponsored by: Peace Hill at Avila and RCWMS)

This retreat will invite participants into one of the most challenging and transformative teachings shared across many spiritual traditions: the call to love one’s enemies while also learning to love oneself with honesty, dignity, and care. Rather than treating these practices as opposite, we will explore how they are deeply connected and mutually empowering. What does love look like? What does love require of us? How can we embody love in the midst of discord and division? Rev. Angie Wright and Rev. Dr. Cathy S. Gilliard will guide participants as we explore personal challenges, unhealed wounds, and hopes for moving forward with greater intention and grace.

Leaders: Rev. Angie Wright is the author of Loving My Enemies & Other Outlandish Pursuits, a memoir of family, faith and power. Angie is a retired UCC pastor devoted to the pursuits of justice and mercy. She has two splendid sons and one precocious 8-year-old grandson. Rev. Dr. Cathy S. Gilliard is a retired United Methodist Church pastor, having most recently served as senior minister at Park Avenue United Methodist Church, New York, NY. She is the proud mother of two wonderful sons and six amazing grandchildren.

Photo by Angie Wright.