Kanuga Conference Center in Hendersonville, North Carolina will be the site of the 15th annual Solo Flight conference September 2-5.
Solo Flight, an intergenerational conference for single adults, was founded to offer opportunities for those who are single in the Episcopal Church, to grow spiritually and fellowship and network with those who share similar values.
Gathering under the theme “Solo Flight: the art of loving” conference participants will focus on developing attitudes and practices that the experience of singularity can help cultivate.
This year’s keynote speaker will be the Rev. Zelda Kennedy, associate rector for pastoral care at All Saints, Pasadena, California.
“Solo Flight is the only on-going national gathering for singles in the Episcopal Church,” said Dr. Kay Collier McLaughlin, director of communications and ministries with single adults for the Diocese of Lexington and founder /national coordinator of Solo Flight. Commenting on the work of the conference leadership team she said “the energy for the ministry goes far beyond the conference.”
Attendees will also celebrate a Liturgy of Healing and Wholeness and Blessing of Singularity as the central liturgical affirmation of the weekend.
The cost of the conference, room and board is $385 per participant. For more information and registration please contact Dr. Kay Collier-McLaughlin at kcollierm@diolex.org; Charlotte Vowan at charlotte.vowan@episcopalsingles.org or David Perkins at DavidWPerk@aol.com
To visit the Solo Flight forum that gives single adults a place to communicate visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/soloflightepis
Note: The following titles are available from the Episcopal Book/Resource Center, 815 Second Avenue, New York, NY 10017; 800.334.7626; http://www.episcopalbookstore.org/
To Read: WHEN MARRIAGE BREAKS UP: A Guide for Christians, by Pauline Druiff (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London, England, 2004, 111 pages, $16.00)
From the publisher: Everyone who enters into marriage is likely to have happy hopes for the future. Very few of us expect or wish our marriages to end in divorce. Today, however, the number of marriages that break up is higher than ever, and marriages between Christians are not immune. For Christians in particular, who have made their vows in the presence of God, there is also a spiritual dimension to what is happening.
Pauline Druiff is a founder member of Broken Rites, a support group for the divorced and separated spouses of Christian ministers.
To Read: GRIEF DREAMS: How They Help Heal Us After the Death of a Loved One, by T.J. Wray and Ann Back Price (Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, California, 2005, 211 pages, $19.95)
From the publisher: The universal experience of grief dreams can help us heal after the death of a loved one. In this book, T.J. Wray and Ann Back Price show how dreams can be affirming, consoling, enlightening, and inspiring. The authors guide readers in ways to understand and value their dreams, how to keep a grief dream journal, and how to use dreams as tools for healing.
T.J. Wray is assistant professor of religious studies at Salve Regina University. She is the author of Surviving the Death of a Sibling: Living Through Grief When an Adult Brother or Sister Dies. She is the creator of http://www.griefdreams.com and http://www.adultsiblinggrief.com
Ann Back Price is a Jugian psychoanalyst and clinical teaching associate in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown Medical School in Providence, Rhode Island.
