Dates

March 13 - May 8, 2025

Day & Time

Thursdays
4:00-5pm PT

Format

9 Weekly
Virtual Sessions

We live in a day of fast information, fast fingers, fast food, fast shipping, fast words, fast anger, and fast judgment. Our fight-or-flight impulses keep us on high alert, aided by mobile devices that vibrate each time another crisis strikes. All this fastness can easily interfere with a slow, intentional life grounded in God’s love.

Christian faith has deep treasures and practices to offer us. How will we live, and who will we be in this highly charged era where politics, economics, environment, and social norms are under significant duress?

Join author Lisa McMinn as she walks with you in exploring quieter, more intentional ways of being, and how these might attune us to the slow work of God in order that we might love one another and the world as God does. Chapters pair a lure to move fast with an invitation to slow.

Becoming slow to anger is an invitation to empathy, slow to judge is an invitation to humility, and slow to grasp is an invitation to contentment. Ultimately, each of these invitations is a movement toward God.

Your Guide & Author 

Lisa McMinn

Lisa has a Ph.D. in Sociology and is a Certified Spiritual Director. She's passionate about walking with others on their spiritual journey.

As an author, her writing focuses on cultural questions that challenge and bump into Christian thought. Her other books include, The Contented Soul, Growing Strong Daughters, Walking Gently on the Earth, and Come to the Table.

She and her husband, Mark, tend Fern Creek Farm, a small five-acre farm that hosts a small forest, orchards, berry patches, vegetable gardens, and hens and goats—all of which she sees as manifestations of God’s love. She is a long-time Quaker, mother and grandmother, and curious student and lover of the natural world.