Cost: Free

Donations Welcome

Online Zoom Event

Six Tuesday Evenings

July 5 - August 9

6:30 - 8:00pm Mountain Time

Facilitator:  JoAnn Porter

Who are your people? How has your story been affected by their collective experiences of crisis and contentment, of love and suffering?

Contemplation is discovering the transformative power of great love and great suffering. In Crisis Contemplation, acclaimed author and African American mystical scholar Rev. Dr. Barbara Holmes examines two entry points into contemplation which are seldom explored: crisis and community.

Weaving both historical and current events, Dr. Holmes uses prophetic vision and poetic prose to examine how crisis contemplation manifests itself in BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) communities. Following the lineage of our shared cosmic origins, Crisis Contemplation explores the Village Response that arises from our individual and communal experience of crises like pandemics, natural disasters, and systemic abuses—offering a roadmap for spiritual connection, healing trauma, and grounding ourselves in our shared cosmic origins.

Including reflection questions and practices to engage both individual readers and groups, Crisis Contemplation is more than a book—it’s an exploration of different futures through liminality and bio-spiritual resurrection.