Hope is Here! Companions August Retreat in Tahoe

Joyful and daunting opportunities to live into God’s dream of justice and beloved community are compelling and available. Hope is essential to the needed personal and social transformations that prepare us for such sacred opportunities. Yet genuine hope is often confused as merely wish fulfillment, optimism, or perceiving better tomorrows. How can we cultivate the inner resources necessary to work for change? Join Companions with Dr. Luther E. Smith Jr. at Zephyr Point in Tahoe for a week of exploration, reflection, and spiritual community. Register here for the August 4-9 retreat or on our website:

https://cotiway.org/next-retreat/!

Rev. Dr. Luther E. Smith Jr is Professor Emeritus of Church & Community at the Candler School of Theology of Emory University. He writes, teaches, and speaks extensively on issues of church and society, interfaith cooperation, child advocacy, congregational renewal, Christian spirituality, and the thoughts of Howard Thurman. Smith is an ordained elder in the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church. He retired from Candler in 2014.

In 2009, Smith received the Phillips School of Theology “Bishops Thomas Hoyt and Paul Stewart Institutional Ministry Award for Outstanding Service to the Ministry of Academics.” In 2010, he was the recipient of Emory University’s “2010 Emory Williams Distinguished Teaching Award,” which is given “in recognition of the important role of classroom teaching in classroom teaching in collegiate and graduate education.”