Programs

Berrigan’s Folly Organizer and Activist Respite Program

Flexible Dates

“The times are urgent; we must slow down.” –Bayo Akomolafe Are you an organizer or activist in need of rest and rejuvenation?  Kirkridge Retreat Center is launching Berrigan’s Folly Organizer and Activist Respite program. We are offering no-cost week-long private retreats for movement organizers and activists in Daniel Berrigan’s Folly Cottage at Kirkridge Retreat Center.  Located […]

Wild Yoga

With Britt

October 8, 2025
Turning Point Meeting Room

Wild Yoga 2nd Wednesdays at 6:00pm Free community yoga Donations accepted, not required For all bodies, races, ages, genders, and faiths. BYOM - Bring Your Own Mat Registration welcome but not required. Description: Every 2nd Wednesday of the month, we come together to connect to our bodies and the true nature of our being through […]

A book with blank pages lies open on a mossy stone overlooking trees and a wide blue sky.

Writing Table Retreat

With Eileen Campbell-Reed

October 9 - 12, 2025
Turning Point

Join us at the Writing Table in person. Enjoy the beauty of Kirkridge in the autumn and ample structured and unstructured time to inspire a rhythm of writing and rest. We invite you to bring a writing project with you or dream up a new one at this retreat. The retreat includes short teaching sessions […]

LGBTQ Social Events - October

October 12, 2025
The Farmhouse

Join us as we build local LGBTQ+ community! Our activities vary from month to month and can be found on our Facebook and Instagram pages, but unless otherwise specified, we gather at 7pm near the Farmhouse or Barn at 2281 Fox Gap Road, Bangor, PA 18013. Hope to meet you soon!

Paul in the Fall: A Book Study of PAUL WAS NOT A CHRISTIAN

With Jean Jeffress

October 12 - November 2, 2025
Zoom

If you find the Apostle Paul hard to read and hard to understand, you are not alone. In this hybrid book study, we will read from Dr. Pamela Eisenbaum’s Paul Was Not A Christian: The Original Message of the Misunderstood Apostle. Dr. Eisenbaum is an expert on early Christianity. Her book reveals the true nature […]

The stone abbey in Iona, Scotland.

Rooted in Hope – Lived in Community

With Ruth Harvey

October 17 - 19, 2025
Turning Point

The Iona Community has been experimenting with the power of faith-based intentional community since1938. We do this through welcoming guests to share a ‘common life’ with us at our residential centres on the Scottish islands of Mull and Iona. And we do this, as a dispersed, global Membership community, through meeting monthly in one another’s […]

A drawing of many hands reaching toward two books at the center.

Kirkridge / Columcille Spirit of the Earth Book Group - October

October 20, 2025
Zoom

October 2025 Spirit of the Earth Book Group Meeting Join us online for our book group! This will be a great opportunity for heartfelt, stimulating conversation and for building community. This month, October 20, @ 6:30 pm ET, the book is TBA. Email us for details kirkridge@kirkridge.org. To attend online by zoom, please register in […]

Dismantling White Supremacy in Organizing Spaces: A Four-Hour Training

With Nichola Torbett

October 26, 2025
available upon registration

We each see this historic moment through the perspective of our social location–the set of privileges and risks we each possess. In this workshop, we will seek out and uproot assumptions rooted in white supremacy that inadvertently get carried into organizing spaces and explore some of the postures and possibilities for cross-racial organizing in this […]

A mostly-full moon peeks out from behind dark, smoky clouds.

Living, Dying, Music, and Mystery – A Retreat Exploring the Threshold

With Barbara McAfee

October 30 - November 2, 2025
Turning Point

“Everyone knows everything sings and dies. But could it be, too, everything dies and sings….” Galway Kinnell   Join singer/songwriter and wise woman, Barbara McAfee, in a soulful investigation of life and death, living and dying, song and silence, beauty and mystery. This retreat incorporates people of any belief system. During our sacred time together, […]

A stone megalith at dusk is light up by two torches.

Walking Awake into the Celtic New Year

With Denise Crawn and Nick Prance

October 31 - November 2, 2025
The Farmhouse

If you feel a deep connection to Nature, have an interest in Celtic Spirituality, and a longing to be amongst the stunning autumn foliage at Kirkridge, this annual weekend retreat may indeed call you ‘home’ to the mountain. Throughout our weekend together we will explore some of the many surrounding lessons and gifts available to […]

Wild Church

November 5, 2025
The Farmhouse

Let's let church go a little wild! We gather at the beautiful Kirkridge Retreat Center every month, outside, on the first Wednesday, to listen together and in solitude for the voice of the Spirit that speaks through the more-than-human world. Most gatherings involve song, prayer and/or ritual, a time of wandering in the woods and […]

LGBTQ Social Events - November

November 9, 2025
The Farmhouse

Join us as we build local LGBTQ+ community! Our activities vary from month to month and can be found on our Facebook and Instagram pages, but unless otherwise specified, we gather at 7pm near the Farmhouse or Barn at 2281 Fox Gap Road, Bangor, PA 18013. Hope to meet you soon!

Nonviolent Direct Action: A Four-Hour Training

With Nichola Torbett, Bill Wylie-Kellermann and Lydia Wylie-Kellerman

November 9, 2025
available upon registration

Inspired by the long legacy of nonviolent direct action in movement history, and especially movements led by Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, this training will begin to prepare participants to use nonviolent, disruptive tactics as part of campaigns for justice. The workshop will give you tools so that your group can find tactics that […]

Wild Yoga

With Britt

November 12, 2025
Turning Point Meeting Room

Wild Yoga 2nd Wednesdays at 6:00pm Free community yoga Donations accepted, not required For all bodies, races, ages, genders, and faiths. BYOM - Bring Your Own Mat Registration welcome but not required. Description: Every 2nd Wednesday of the month, we come together to connect to our bodies and the true nature of our being through […]

A line of people hold three banners that read "Break Bread not Bodies" and "Christians for a Free Palestine."

Liturgical Direct Action: A Discernment Retreat

With Bill Wylie-Kellermann, Naomi Washington-Leapheart and Nichola Torbett

November 14 - 16, 2025
Turning Point

How is direct action or civil disobedience altered when framed in prayerful worship? What dimensions of freedom are then embraced? When public witness tells the story of faith and marks a feast or season, what new depth of communication is opened? When nonviolence is practiced in sacramental forms, how is liturgy itself enhanced?  With examples […]

A drawing of many hands reaching toward two books at the center.

Kirkridge / Columcille Spirit of the Earth Book Group - November

November 17, 2025
Zoom

November 2025 Spirit of the Earth Book Group Meeting Join us online for our book group! This will be a great opportunity for heartfelt, stimulating conversation and for building community. This month, November 17, @ 6:30 pm ET, the book is TBA. Email us for details kirkridge@kirkridge.org. To attend online by zoom, please register in […]

Wild Church

December 3, 2025
The Farmhouse

Let's let church go a little wild! We gather at the beautiful Kirkridge Retreat Center every month, outside, on the first Wednesday, to listen together and in solitude for the voice of the Spirit that speaks through the more-than-human world. Most gatherings involve song, prayer and/or ritual, a time of wandering in the woods and […]

A round centerpiece made of ice and frozen branches and berries glows from a candle inside.

Winter Craft Retreat

December 5 - 7, 2025
The Farmhouse

On these cold December nights, we will have a fire burning and hot chocolate on the stove. Bring your knitting needles, quilting squares, paint brushes, wrapping paper, or whittling knife and gather in the warmth and stillness of the season.  This retreat will have no facilitator or agenda. There will be delicious food, good company, […]

Wild Yoga

With Britt

December 10, 2025
Turning Point Meeting Room

Wild Yoga 2nd Wednesdays at 6:00pm Free community yoga Donations accepted, not required For all bodies, races, ages, genders, and faiths. BYOM - Bring Your Own Mat Registration welcome but not required. Description: Every 2nd Wednesday of the month, we come together to connect to our bodies and the true nature of our being through […]

Keening Workshop

With Annie Wilson

December 13, 2025
The Farmhouse

Keening was a practice of communal grieving practiced at wakes and funerals in the British Isles for thousands of years, until its erasure over the course of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Keening was led by elder women, often midwives: those who tended to the threshold between life and death.  In the first […]

LGBTQ Social Events - December

December 14, 2025
The Farmhouse

Join us as we build local LGBTQ+ community! Our activities vary from month to month and can be found on our Facebook and Instagram pages, but unless otherwise specified, we gather at 7pm near the Farmhouse or Barn at 2281 Fox Gap Road, Bangor, PA 18013. Hope to meet you soon!

A drawing of many hands reaching toward two books at the center.

Kirkridge / Columcille Spirit of the Earth Book Group - December

December 15, 2025
Zoom

December 2025 Spirit of the Earth Book Group Meeting Join us online for our book group! This will be a great opportunity for heartfelt, stimulating conversation and for building community. This month, December 15, @ 6:30 pm ET, the book is TBA. Email us for details kirkridge@kirkridge.org. To attend online by zoom, please register in […]

One year of bird omens: a winter writing retreat

With Lydia Wylie-Kellerman and Lacey Hunter

January 16 - 18, 2026
The Farmhouse

Join us for a cozy weekend in the mountains to focus on your writing life. Trust that there will be roaring fires, snowy trails, hot chocolate, candlelight, good food, and lots of quiet. We will offer some brief prompts and rituals throughout the days to nudge the imagination and then offer spacious hours for your […]

A Weekend Celebrating The Many Blessings of Brigid and Imbolc

With Denise Crawn

January 30 - February 1, 2026
The Farmhouse

On the Celtic Wheel of the Year, Imbolc marks the midway point between winter solstice and spring equinox. With its arrival we find ourselves at a threshold in Nature. Here in the northern hemisphere, as we continue our annual cyclical spiral away from the cold, dark months of winter towards the returning light and warmth […]

Weaving our Iona Connections: A Walking Awake Pilgrimage

With Denise Crawn

August 7 - 15, 2026

A Walking Awake pilgrimage to the Isle of Iona, Scotland with Columcille Megalith Park and Kirkridge Retreat Center (registration is open to all). After experiencing a wonderfully memorable shared pilgrimage to Iona in 2024, Columcille Megalith Park, Kirkridge Retreat Center and Walking Awake are excited to announce that we've decided to offer another in August, 2026! If you are […]