Weekend of Learning & Renewal with Kathy Escobar, Co-Pastor of The Refuge in Broomfield, CO: Our friend and kindred spirit, Kathy Escobar will be spending the weekend with us, starting Saturday from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. at Patti & Dana’s Home. Join us for a bring-something-to-share brunch with conversation and learning around “practicing paradox” (see below for more info!) Then on Sunday, Kathy will facilitate our gathering at Hyperion.

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Kathy Escobar is a pastor, writer, advocate, speaker, and spiritual director. She is the co-founder and continues to serve as co-pastor of The Refuge in Broomfield, CO. The Refuge is a hub for healing community, social action, and creative collaboration serving in North Denver since 2006. Inspired by the ways of Jesus, The Refuge’s work is centered around shared values of presence, engagement, transformation, welcome, creativity, and celebration.

Kathy is also the author of A Weary World, Practicing, Faith Shift, and Down We Go.

You can learn more about Kathy by visiting her website.

Kathy will be leading us in a weekend centering on “Practicing Paradoxing”:

Paradoxing—holding contradicting things in the same space at the same time—is not an easy task, yet it is a lifelong practice that helps us cultivate greater health not only in our own lives but in our local communities and the wider world, too. In a world that constantly defaults to all things binary, paradoxing is counter-cultural and requires intention, spiritual support, and kindreds who are practicing, too. This weekend we’ll engage together with the practice of paradoxing and all of the “ands” that are part of real life so we can find ways to embody freedom and hope that cultivate change.