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Symposium 2013

GladdeningLight Spiritual Arts Symposium 2013Love, Now
with Matthew Fox

GladdeningLight’s 2013 Weekend Symposium
was held

February 1-3, 2013 • Winter Park, Florida

  • Matthew Fox, spirituality Matthew Fox (www.matthewfox.org), the symposium’s featured speaker, has been called “the most creative, the most comprehensive, surely the most challenging spiritual teacher in America.” Formerly a member of the Dominican order of the Roman Catholic Church, Fox is an Episcopal priest and founder of the Creation Spirituality movement in Oakland, California. He is the author of thirty-one books, including Original Blessing, The Coming of the Cosmic Christ and Creativity (which was our text for the symposium).
  • Four practicing artists embodied Fox’s vision of creativity—the Via Positiva, Via Negativa, Via Creativa and Via Transformativa—exhibiting and speaking about their own yearnings to co-create within the munificence of the divine present.

Read the Interview with Matthew Fox

“The music, the meditations, the playfulness of Matthew Fox exceeded my expectations.”
Martha Bennett

GladdeningLight is for the keen observer and spiritual seeker receptive to the still small voice of the present moment, where the creative process thrives, unbound from past regrets and future anxiety. Pilgrims aspiring to the freedom of infinite love at the meeting point of the divine and human are invited to gather at our annual weekend symposiums for playful discussion and enlightened teaching amid an unforgettable aesthetic experience.

At GladdeningLight, there were lectures on the artists’ arc of creativity, mystical journeys into inspired artworks, meditation and musical forms, and ecumenical joy for all things bright and beautiful.

View the Artist Profiles

Videos from the Symposium

River Guerguerian discusses devotion, GladdeningLight Symposium Artist Forum, February 2, 2013 (Symposium 2013)

Percussionist River Guerguerian, GladdeningLight Symposium, February 1, 2013 (Symposium 2013)

Matthew Fox discusses the mystical practice of walking meditation, GladdeningLight Symposium, February 1, 2013 (Symposium 2013)

Tracy Radosevic shares the Genesis creation story, GladdeningLight Symposium, February 1, 2013 (Symposium 2013)

Chris Rosser and River Guerguerian of Free Planet Radio jam, GladdeningLight Symposium, February 2, 2013 (Symposium 2013)

Martha Porter, GladdeningLight Symposium worship, February 3, 2013 (Symposium 2013)


“The Earth is Our Mother, We Must Take Care of Her,” GladdeningLight Symposium worship, February 3, 2013 (Symposium 2013)


Photos from the Symposium

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  • 2013 Spiritual Arts Conference, John Crossan
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  • 2013 Spiritual Arts Conference, John Crossan
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  • 2013 Spiritual Arts Conference, John Crossan
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Experience the glory of the present and savor its fleeting beauty in the Gladdening Light of God

Fred Westbrook, In Life and Death

In Life and Death by Fred Westbrook

Sponsoring Churches
Episcopal Church of the Resurrection, Longwood
St. Richard’s Episcopal Church, Winter Park
Jubilee! Community, Asheville, NC
First Congregational Church of Winter Park
St. Peter the Fisherman, New Smyrna Beach

“My painting is all about being present in the moment, being in touch with where I am and what I’m feeling right then. I want the viewer to enter into this moment—and journey with me. My work over time has become a kind of emotional and spiritual archive of the heart.”
– Fred Westbrook

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