Beloved Community for Engaged Spirituality:
Spiritual Radicals Speaker Series
The Beloved Community for Engaged Spirituality with Kaira Jewel Ling and Father Adam Bucko, is restarting monthly Buddhist Christian gatherings, now on Saturday mornings from 11-12:30pm ET. (This used to be called The Buddhist Christian Community for Meditation and Action)
These gatherings will include guest teachers and conversations that draw from the lives and wisdom of the saints of the beloved community—those whose lives remind us that even in difficult and violent times, groundedness, courage, and a spacious vision are possible. Their witness helps us remember that oppression and cruelty never have the final word.
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Ecumenical Spirit of our Gatherings
These gatherings are open to all. They are held in a spirit of deep ecumenism. Whatever your background or religious affiliation, whatever spirituality or practice you are exploring, you are welcome here. You do not need to belong to any particular faith tradition to take part.
At the same time, we, Kaira Jewel and Adam teach grounded in our own traditions. We offer them not as something to impose, but as resources we have received from those in whose footsteps we follow. And from there, we keep pointing toward what Howard Thurman named so beautifully: the importance of tending your inner life, listening for the voice of the genuine, and staying connected to that deep place within you that animates you with love and guides how you live.
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Generosity
Monthly gatherings are offered on a donation basis. All donations from our gatherings will go towards projects working to relieve suffering, help people flourish and support social change, as well as seed our new contemplative center, The Beloved Commmunity for Engaged Spirituality and Our Lady of the Resurrection Monastery.
Or you can subscribe to the Beloved Community for Engaged Spirituality Substack Publication for a “you choose” monthly donation.
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It is helpful for our records if you can note the date of the session you are donating for.
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Upcoming Gatherings
We will gather monthly from January through June, on Saturdays from 11-12:30pm ET, for teachings and shared practice. The dates of our gatherings for the first half of 2026 are:
January 24, 2026, Examen
February 28, 2026, revisiting Robert Ellsberg’s talk on Dorothy Day
March 28, 2026, Amita Schmidt author of Dipa Ma: The Life and Legacy of a Buddhist Master
April 25, 2026,
May, 2026, No gathering
July 18, 2026
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