This Week @ C3

Lead Teacher Brad Ruggles closes our Sacred Earth series with A More Beautiful World.

Former Lead Teacher Kent Dobson joins us this week for It's a Matter of Attention, part of our Sacred Earth series.

Core Teacher Ruth Zwald joins us this week to teach us about Elemental Love in our series Sacred Earth.

Lead Teacher Brad Ruggles is back to teach this week in our series Sacred Earth with the topic Luminous Beings Are We.

Guest Teacher Rob Larson makes his first visit to C3 to participate in our series Sacred Earth with a teaching about Acknowledging the Land–Connection vs. Disconnection.

Last Sunday we started a new series, Sacred Earth: Reconnecting with the wisdom of nature and our place within it. Brad's first talk was Holy Ground, which will we will build on as the series progresses. This week the topic is Holy Smokes – The Plants that Heal Us.

Lead Teacher Brad Ruggles begins Sacred Earth, a new series exploring the deep, often forgotten relationship between ourselves and the living world around us. Rather than focusing on what's broken, we'll begin by reconnecting—with the Earth, and with the ground beneath our feet.

Lead Teacher Brad Ruggles decided to extend Your Wild and Precious Life: Celebrating the Wisdom of the Feminine, to teach about The Gaia Hypothesis.

Lead Teacher Brad Ruggles returns to round out our series Your Wild and Precious Life: Celebrating the Wisdom of the Feminine. His title is In the Beginning, She.

Tabitha Blanski returns as Guest Teacher this Sunday with her contribution to Your Wild and Precious Life: Celebrating the Wisdom of the Feminine. She asks Can the Feminine Save Us?

Our series Your Wild and Precious Life: Celebrating the Wisdom of the Feminine continues with Core Teacher Beth Buelow and her take on What We Get Wrong about Feminine Energy.

The second week in our series Your Wild and Precious Life: Celebrating the Wisdom of the Feminine features a return visit from Dr. Sarah Kornfield. Her contribution to the series is Our Mothers Preached.

Core Teacher Ruth Zwald introduces our new series, Your Wild and Precious Life: Celebrating the Wisdom of the Feminine. For week one, Ruth explores the question How do we learn to honor the wisdom of the feminine?

We welcome Former Lead Teacher Kent Dobson for Week 6 of the Who Am I? series. His teaching is Ancient Imaginal Consciousness.

Michael DeWilde takes the stage for his talk, Is Consciousness Mortal?

Lead Teacher Brad Ruggles gets back in the groove this week with Who Am I? Week 4: Awareness.

Lead Teacher Brad Ruggles and our Executive Director Shannon McMaster

The series Who Am I? moves on with: The Ego, by Lead Teacher Brad Ruggles.

Lead Teacher Brad Ruggles initiates the new series Who Am I? with part one, The Conscious MInd.

Core Teacher Beth Buelow rings in 2025 with her teaching Let's Get Stoned!

Lead Teacher Brad Ruggles closes 2024 with his teaching The Wisdom of Winter: The Seed Beneath the Snow.

We continue our series The Wisdom of Winter as Brad Ruggles covers this week's theme: simple—Listen.

Lead Teacher Brad Ruggles introduces a new series the Wisdom of Winter: Finding Stillness, Strength, and Renewal in Life's Dark Seasons with his teaching Hello Darkness, My Old Friend.

We welcome Core Teacher Ruth Zwald as she contributes Angels to the series What the World Needs Now.

Lead Teacher Brad Ruggles advances the series What the World Needs Now with the intriguing noun (r)Evolution.

Our ongoing series What the World Needs Now will be addressed by Professor of Political Science at Ferris State University David Takitaki. His contribution to the series is Capacity.

Two guest teachers join us, Reverend Luis Cypher and Minister Bendr Bones, from the Satanic Temple. They contend that Courage is What the World Needs Now, noting that courage is easy to fake, and that many people confuse courage with bravado. Courage isn't about being tough, but about standing up for what is right, even in despair.

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.

Our new series What the World Needs Now continues with Lead Teacher Brad Ruggles focusing on Balance.

C3 Lead Teacher Brad Ruggles is back to kick off a new series, What the World Needs Now. In our first week, Refuge, we'll look at the growing need for safe spaces, where individuals can explore life's deep questions without expectations or judgement.

C3 Core Teacher Michael DeWilde is back for the second week in a row. This week's teaching is Part Two: Hot Button Issues in Ethics.

C3 Core Teacher Michael DeWilde joins us for the first of two consecutive visits with his talk: Hot Button Issues in Ethics.

C3's Lead Teacher Brad Ruggles channels SNL's Nadine with his teaching Simma Down Nah. The political frenzy has been ratcheted up to a new level this election cycle. Things are crazy and they're probably going to get even crazier in the coming months. How do we turn down the temperature on our conversations and interactions? Is it even possible to find common ground when there is so little to agree on? We may not agree on the answers, but we'll ask the tough questions together.

Miriam Bush, who was with us last November, adds to our Unfolding series with Riding the Wave: Seeking Balance.

This week in our Unfolding series, we’ll explore the pitfalls of living a life built on pretense and the profound impact it has on our mental health, relationships, and society […]

The series Unfolding continues this week with C3 Lead Teacher Brad Ruggles with his teaching Why, That's Me!

C3 Core Teacher Ruth Zwald incorporats Nature into the Unfolding series with her teaching Nature Does What It Does.

C3 Lead Teacher Brad Ruggles extends the Unfolding series with this week’s teaching, Welcoming Mara.

Lead teacher Brad Ruggles continues the new series he started last week, Unfolding, with the second teaching It Is What It Is.

C3 Lead Teacher Brad Ruggles steps back in with his teaching Unfolding: An Invitation to Surrender to Life’s Flow.

We welcome Joseph Kuilema to C3 for the first time. He presents his message, “Love Has Never Been a Popular Movement will be his topic.” Joseph is assistant professor of […]

We are welcome back Guest Teacher Kent Dobson for the second part of The Old Will Dream, the Young See Visions: Renewal of the Mystical.

We welcome back our former lead teacher, Kent Dobson, as our Guest Teacher. He presents his teaching titled “The Old Will Dream, the Young Will See Visions: Renewal of the […]

Lead Teacher Brad Ruggles opens Pride month with Things I Wish I'd Said. A sneak peek at the readings, one from James Baldwin and one from Yuval Noah Harari, points […]

Lead Teacher Brad Ruggles explores The Land Between, Part 2: Navigating Life's Difficult Transitions this week, as we all occupy this liminal space of getting to know each other better.