Our friend and Southwest Regional Retreat alumna, Lori Tischler, sent us a message recently about how much her 2010 Vacation with a Purpose experience meant to her. She kindly gave us permission to share it with you: My eyes are tearing up with a heart full of the richness and depths of God’s goodness as I savor the delicious
Randy Alcorn Writes About C.S. Lewis’s Influence
Randy Alcorn, featured speaker at this year’s Southwest Regional Retreat and Writers Workshop in Navasota, Texas, writes on his blog about the impact that C.S. Lewis had on his life and writing. Part one of the two-part series can be found here, while part two is here.
Video Blog from Northfield, 8-12-2010
View of the sunset from Northfield. Part of a lecture on the Great Awakening and the history of the Connecticut River Valley by Rev. Dr. Leslie Fairfield.
How I Spent My Summer — “Vacation With A Purpose”
I went back to college. Not to the University of Colorado or UCLA, like in the sixties, or even to West Texas A&M in the nineties to study for a second career. This was back on campus for a vacation of sorts, if you call a ten-day sabbatical working at giving an abandoned campus a
“A Present (a Pipe) and a poem to go with them”
Our dear friend and event speaker Malcolm Guite just invited me to link to a post on his blog related to this year’s Summer Seminar at The Kilns. Malcolm spent an afternoon with a group of seminar participants at the Orchard in Granchester. After receiving an unexpected and very welcome gift from Jerry Root, Malcolm