The Beloved Community for Engaged Spirituality with Kaira Jewel Lingo 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.
We invite you to join us on Saturday, February 28, from 11 am-12:30 pm ET for our Saints of the Beloved Community series, featuring Robert Ellsberg in conversation about the life and witness of Dorothy Day. We’ll begin by screening an interview that Adam and Kaira Jewel recorded with Robert. Afterward, we will spend time journaling and then enter into conversation together, reflecting on how her wisdom might guide us in our own time.
Dorothy spent decades housing the homeless, choosing to live in voluntary simplicity, protesting unjust systems, advocating for nonviolence, and embodying the spirit of the Beatitudes.
Robert worked closely with Dorothy Day for many years and later edited her writings, journals, and letters, helping bring her voice to new generations. He speaks of her with an intimate, lived knowing, drawing out the depth of her spirituality and the courage of her commitment as a Christian anarchist, founder of the Catholic Worker movement, and lifelong witness to nonviolence, hospitality, and social justice. His reflections feel especially clarifying for the moment we are living through.
Beyond his work with Dorothy Day, Robert is the longtime publisher of Orbis Books, a press that helped introduce liberation theology to the wider church and has shaped theological imagination over recent decades through the work of Gustavo Gutiérrez, Leonardo Boff, leading womanist theologians, and many others. He is also the author of several beloved books on the saints and the spiritual life.
Our monthly gatherings are offered on a donation basis.
Recording will be available for one month.
To register for February here.
Online
***
We will gather monthly through June, on Saturdays from 11-12:30pm ET, for teachings and shared practice. The remaining dates of our gatherings for the first half of 2026 are:
March 28 with Amita Schmidt author of Dipa Ma: The Life and Legacy of a Buddhist Master
April 25, Guest speaker TBA
No gathering in May,
and June 13, Guest speaker TBA