C3 Lead Teacher Brad Ruggles adds Upekkhā (Equanimity) to the series What the World Needs Now.

Lead Teacher Brad Ruggles, as we take time to look back and reflect on where we’ve come from.

Our Core Teacher Beth Buelow brings the message that What the World Needs Now is Play.

John Philip Newell, a "wandering teacher" from Scotland in the ancient Celtic Christian tradition, is our very special Guest Teacher. Known for blending the poetic and intellectual, Newell speaks to both the head and the heart. He will present The Great Search: Turning to Earth and Soul in the Quest for Healing and Home.

Daryl Van Tongeren, Ph. D is the Professor of Psychology and Director of the Frost Center for Social Science Research at Hope College. His contribution to our series What the World Needs Now is Humility.

Lead Teacher Brad Ruggles addresses What the World Needs Now with mettā, a Pali word, most often translated as loving-kindness, but also as universal goodwill or compassion.

Guest Teacher Sarah Kornfield visits this week and adds Surrender to the list of What the World Needs Now. Her teaching title is Men Don’t Retreat: Masculinity and Sovereignty in White Evangelicalism.

This week’s Gathering brings our third Guest Teacher for October, Foster aka AutoPilot, who is one of the co-founders and a teaching artist with The Diatribe, one of Grand Rapids’ premier arts and culture non-profit organizations. He is a professional orator whose work is infused with joy and humor.

This is the last week of our series Meaning Matters: 12 Words/12 Months, and we’re pleased welcome Fable the Poet (Marcel Price) once again as our Guest Teacher as he discusses What is Sacred.

Kent Dobson is back this week with his second teaching about Silence in the series Meaning Matters: 12 Words/12 Months.