July 3 - July 15
CHARLES MARSH

THE GRACE TO GO NOWHERE

After 10 active years and three books on radical Christianity, I’m seeing that the kind of action that participates in the world’s redemption and the earth’s renewal—rather than manipulates and superimposes results—is an action that grows out of the deepest stillness. Ring Lake has helped me understand this truth. So the seminar will focus on the contemplative sources of the activist life.

CHARLES MARSH teaches religion at the University of Virginia and is the author of The Last Days, God's Long Summer, and Reclaiming Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

July 24- July 30
CATHERINE WHITMIRE

HEALING OF BROKENNESS

Carl Jung said that human transformation doesn't happen by encountering concepts, but by encountering images, symbols, stories and places. This seminar attends to the magic of biblical narrative and the oral tradition, the role of metaphor in pastoral care and spiritual growth, the use of teaching stories in the world's great religions, and the dynamics of storytelling and storylistening. All of this focusing on the healing of pain that a fiercely-beautiful landscape can make possible.

BELDEN LANE is Hotfelder Professor in the Humanities at Saint Louis University, who teaches in the Departments of Theological Studies and American Studies, focusing on the history of spirituality and inter-connections between religion and American culture. He has authored many articles as well as The Solace of Fierce Landscapes and Landscapes of the Sacred.

Biblical perspectives on empire, power, and justice, and the significance of the biblical vision for Christians today. A Ring Lake Ranch "intensive," with two sessions per day, one at 4:45 pm and a second at 7:30 pm.

MARCUS BORG is Hundere Distinguished Professor of Religion and Culture at Oregon State University and author of many books, including the best selling "Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time," "The God We Never Knew," and "The Heart of Christianity."

JOHN DOMINIC CROSSAN is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Religious Studies, DePaul University, Chicago, past Co-Chair of the Jesus Seminar, and author of many books on the historical Jesus and earliest Christianity, including "Excavating Jesus: Beneath the Stones, Behind the Texts," co-authored with archeologist, Jonathan L. Reed.

THE LIVING LAND OF WESTERN WYOMING

Ring Lake Ranch is in an area of extraordinary geology and natural history. Mountains form, rise, fall, move, and erupt. A variety of animals and plants adapt to the area in surprising ways. Inhabitants here as early as 6,000 years ago believed this to be a sacred place. Learn these stories at evening seminars and optional daily hikes to vistas, waterfalls and lakes.

ALAN MEBANE has degrees in geology. He served as a park ranger/naturalist during 31 years with the National Park Service. He worked in Grand Teton National Park and was Chief Naturalist of Yellowstone National Park.

JEANIE MEBANE has been a naturalist with both the National Park Service and the US Forest Service in Wyoming. The Ring Lake Ranch area is one of her favorite places and she enjoys sharing its wonders.

For More Information Call: (307) 455-2663 or Email To: ringlake@wyoming.com .