Instructor:  Marilyn McEntyre, PhD

Description:  Whether or not you plan to publish, writing can become a valuable dimension of your daily life. Crafting sentences, paragraphs, poems, prayers or simple lists can become a way to process what's happening in public life, in family life, or in your own memory or imagination. Writing in response to passages or sentences or phrases that give you pause can be surprising: sometimes thoughts or feelings don't surface until words come. Especially now, as the church and the world face truly unprecedented challenges, writing is a quiet calling that can help us hold steady in the storm. In this two-hour workshop we'll explore and experiment with approaches to journal keeping that are varied, prayerful, life-giving, and manageable, even for busy people.

Registration Fee: General $40 / Student $15

Location: First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley, 94704

About Marilyn McEntyre: Dr. McEntyre, a longtime professor of literature and medical humanities, teaches for New College Berkeley and Westmont College, and is on the faculty of Western Seminary’s “Sacred Art of Writing” doctor of ministry program as well as the “Forest Dwelling” program at the Oblate School of Theology. She offers spiritual retreats and writing workshops and continues to write about spirituality, language, healthcare and earth care. She also works as a writing coach. Her recent books include When Poets Pray, Speaking Peace in a Climate of Conflict, and a collection of Lenten readings, Where the Eye Alights.

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10 - 11:45am Discerning Gospel Faithfulness in the San Francisco Bay Area: An Introduction.

12 - 1:30pm  Radix Magazine & New College Berkeley Together! - An Update Luncheon