The solstice is coming ...

"Wherever we are in the world, the solstice is coming and we are breaking out of one season and into another. And just as certainly, the breakdown of life as we know it everywhere is telling us that we are breaking out of the age of modernity, a divisive and dangerous worldview, and into what many believe is an ecozoic age and a restorative one universe story."

Join Carol Kilby for an Earth Literacies Program - The Dance of Unmaking - a practice to more deeply align our lives with the Earth sun dance, in this particular evolutionary moment.

Join in the Dance of Unmaking, society’s guiding story, as we Honour the Winter SOLSTICE! LEARN MORE

About Rev. Dr. Carol Kilby

Rev. Dr. Carol Kilby is the author of Evolutionary Dancer, Out, In, and on the Fringe of the Church

Ordained in the United Church of Canada (1991), she holds a Masters of Divinity from the University of Toronto, and a Doctor of Ministry from the University of Creation Spirituality (2004). Responding to the planetary crisis, Kilby stepped out of ministry to found and coordinate the Gaia Centre for Eco-Spirituality and Sustainable Work (2005). When she returned to offer supply ministry at Kinmount United Church, she found herself in an experiment in Evolutionary Spirituality which inspired her to write.

She is also author of Our Cosmic Beatitudes - A Code of Being for this Evolutionary Moment. Kilby is a contributing member of the Deep Time Network, Creation Spirituality Communities, and host of a webinar program: Evolutionary Ritual Community. She resides in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. LEARN MORE

Dates: Sunday, Dec. 21st, 2025

Time: 10 AM Pacific   1 PM Eastern

Poetry, Science and the Cosmic Imagination

This series is a reflective and participative journey at the intersection of poetry and science where these converge to expand our understanding of the universe. It brings together selected poets whose work illuminates the cosmos of the possible, crafting language that moves between wonder and knowledge, creativity and discovery. 

Featuring a selection of contemporary poets, including First Nations poets, the series explores how storytelling, metaphor, and deep scientific thought interweave to form new ways of seeing. Whether tracing the patterns of the stars, or the intricate mysteries of quantum reality, the poets in this series invite us to reflect on our place in the cosmos- not only as observers but as participants in its unfolding imagination. 

About Judith Keller, M.Ed.

Judith Keller lives on the unceded lands of the Kombumerri people of the wider Bundjalung language nation at Southport, in the Bioregion of S.E. Qld on the E. coast of Australia. Judith’s background is in education, spirituality and the arts. She has held academic positions in universities in Australia, Australian Catholic University Qld, and the University of Newcastle NSW. In her retirement Judith trained as guide in her Regional Botanic Gardens at Benowa at Southport leading guided walks related to endangered species of her Bioregion as well as advocating for and educating about endemic tree species.

Today Judith describes herself as a cosmic contemplative, an essayist, artist, poet and poetry tutor. She is the co-founder of the Australian online eco meditation community, Ecotone, in which participants meet twice a month weaving poetry, shared silence, and music inspired by contemporary texts related to science, eco spirituality and theology. She teaches poetry face to face and online in local community education networks and in local and State library networks with an emphasis on contemporary women poets and First Nations women poets locally and globally. A recent poetry series focussed on the poetry of Jane Hirshfield, This Falling World. LEARN MORE

Dates: 4 Wednesdays: January 7th - 28th, 2026

Time: 4 PM Pacific | 7 PM Eastern

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