Mission

. . . have patience with everything

unresolved in your heart and try to love

the questions themselves as if they were

locked rooms or books written in a very

foreign language. . . .

live the questions

now. Perhaps then, someday far in the

future, you will gradually, without even

noticing it, live your way

into the answer.

Rainer Maria Rilke, from Letters to a Young Poet

What is wanted is not that we should find
      ultimate truth,
nor that we should become secure,
nor that we should have ease,
nor that we should be without hurt,
but that we should live fully.
It is for us

  to train our hearts to live in grace,

      to sacrifice our self-centered desires,
      to find the peace without want
      without seeking it for ourselves,
      and when we fail,
      to begin again each day.

      - John McQuiston II, Always We Begin Again

The Center for Faith and Action.

Every educational experience offered by The Center for Faith and Action is a laboratory for learning how the inward and the outward journeys both shape our meaning-making and our action-taking. Every class offers concrete means of embodying justice and wholeness, grace and celebration.

Educational experiences take the form of discussion classes, hands-on workshops, study tours, film-discussion series, and a world of ideas we'll be dreaming with you. Each of The Center's learning forums charges tuition, requires a materials fee, or requests a donation but never excludes anyone. Hospitality -- first, last, and always -- shapes the heart of The Center.