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Greetings,
Please save the date for the following events. More details will follow in the weeks to come!
Brigid's Place
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Great Hall of Christ Church Cathedral
1117 Texas Avenue
Houston, Texas 77002
| Thursday, August 18, 2011
6:30 p.m. Registration
7:00 p.m. Opening Remarks/Talk by Dr. Elora Shehabuddin
8:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. Call to Prayer, Dinner and Conversation |
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2011 Pink Iftar Dinner
The Ladies of the Pink Iftar, Christ Church Cathedral and Brigid's Place are proud to announce the 2011 Pink Iftar Dinner. Last year's inaugural event (formerly the Interfaith Women's Ramadan Iftar) hosted over 150 guests and more than 20 Muslim women conversationalists in the Great Hall of Christ Church Cathedral. Dr. Elora Shehabbudin will return this year as the keynote speaker. Registration information will be available soon. Visit the Programs page of our website for updates. |
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Margaret Austin Center
6650 Trackside Rd.
Chapel Hill, Texas 77426
| June 3, 2011 through June 5, 2011
Opening on Friday, June 3rd
7:00 p.m. Orientation and Light Refreshments
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Compassionate Retreat
Compassionate Houston and the Boniuk Center for Religious Tolerance present a retreat on compassion at the Margaret Austin Center June 3-5. The retreat will begin at 7 p.m. Friday, June 3, with an orientation session and light refreshments before our opening session and will close after lunch on Sunday, June 5. Sessions will be led by practitioners in several contemplative traditions and will guide participants through a variety of approaches to cultivating and reflecting on compassion. Vegetarian meals and refreshments will be provided. Total cost for the retreat will be around $160 total (with participants free to make an additional donation to Compassionate Houston at the end of the weekend). Please check the Center's website for registration information. |
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Location and Time: To Be Determined
| Wednesday evenings in June
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"Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: a Memoir of Going Home"
Book Study
Join Trace Jae as she leads us in a book study of Rhoda Janzen's wonderful and delightful memoir "Mennonite in a Little Black Dress". The location and exact time are being finalized. From the author's website: Not long after Rhoda Janzen turned forty, her world turned upside down. It was bad enough that her husband of fifteen years left her for Bob, a guy he met on Gay.com, but that same week a car accident left her injured. Needing a place to rest and pick up the pieces of her life, Rhoda packed her bags, crossed the country, and returned to her quirky Mennonite family's home, where she was welcomed back with open arms and offbeat advice. (Rhoda's good-natured mother suggested she get over her heartbreak by dating her first cousin-he owned a tractor, see.)
Written with wry humor and huge personality-and tackling faith, love, family, and aging-Mennonite in a Little Black Dress is an immensely moving memoir of healing, certain to touch anyone who has ever had to look homeward in order to move ahead. |
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Brigid's Place is a 501(c)(3) Tax-Exempt Non-Profit Organization that supports the spiritual development of women. We offer classes, lectures, discussion groups, weekend workshops and retreats where people can ask questions relating to their spiritual journeys, address their doubts, and become empowered to meet the challenges of life. We are named after St. Brigid, a fifth century Irish Celtic Saint who founded a monastery of nuns and monks based on the social concept of equality of men and women. They were known for their wisdom, compassion, hospitality, and healing.
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