The School of the Spirit Ministry serves all those who wish to be more faithful listeners and responders to the work of the Inward Teacher. The ministry is grounded in prayer and offers programs rooted in the Quaker contemplative tradition of the living Silence.

Upcoming Events

What We Need is Here A Contemplative Retreat in the Manner of Friends at the Siena Retreat Center

Racine, Wisconsin May 3-5, 2024 with Catherine Cox, Thais Carr, Elizabeth Evans, and Maryann Concannon

Please join us for an upcoming Faithful Meetings information session!

We invite you to join us for weekly worship

Hosted by Ellen Michaud every Monday at 1 PM Eastern time.

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The place of prayer is a precious habitation: … I saw this habitation to be safe, to be inwardly quiet, when there was great stirrings and commotions in the world.

John Woolman, 1770

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