“Illuminating Spiritual Innovation”

The Urantia Society of Greater New York (USGNY) warmly invites you to attend their hybrid meeting on Saturday, November 16.

Here’s the program:

11:30 – 12:30 EST.
Local USGNY members and friends will share lunch at the home of Lila Dogim, 200 Winston Dr., Apt. 1610 in Cliffside Park, NJ

12:30 – Link will open to include friends unable to come in person and anyone else interested in Angie Thurston’s talk.

Here’s the link…
Meeting ID: 897 4958 0383
Passcode: 612919
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12:45 – Prayer led by Andrea Deinstadt

1:00 – 2:00 – “Illuminating Spiritual Innovation” led by Angie Thurston. Angie is Co-Founder and Executive Director of Sacred
Design Lab, a nonprofit devoted to advancing spiritual innovation. She has been working in the field of spiritual innovation for over a decade, having received a Masters of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School and worked there for five years as a Ministry Innovation Fellow. In 2022, Sacred Design Lab received a grant from the Templeton World Charity Foundation to study spiritual innovation around the world. In this program, Angie will share some of the findings from the research, which are described in the recent global report, Illuminating Spiritual Innovation. Angie is a second-generation Urantia Book reader and was a member of the Urantia Society of Greater New York for a number of years. She now lives in Falls Church, VA with her husband Vipin and their
three-year-old son, Orion.

[Update: here is an article about the presentation]

2:15 – USGNY business meeting

We hope to see you then.

Illustrations

The newsletter graphic is by Alexandra Dzhiganskaya, an award-winning Ukrainian illustration and animation artist, currently in Vienna, Austria. In her description of her untitled piece she says she has come to realize that spirituality is not just a set of beliefs or practices, but a personal journey that integrates our experiences, traditions, and technologies.


The graphic on this page is by Enrico Nagel, a German artist and illustrator from Berlin, currently based in Paris. He specializes in collage art, creating mysterious and imaginative works by harmoniously combining thousands of images using both digital tools and traditional cut-and-paste techniques. For him, spiritual innovation means the creative combination of traditional wisdom and modern technologies, a dialogue between past and future.

This announcement was originally published in the Mini Messenger, November 7th, 2024