Convocation 2025, Flipping the Script: Claiming Our Voices, Telling Our Stories

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Throughout human history, people have told stories to make meaning of the world around them, to create and nurture bonds with one another, and to shape the ways in which they engage with the natural world.

At a time when the crises we face are myriad and the structures we once thought stable are crumbling, storytelling offers us a powerful practice for slowing down, for paying deep attention, and for recognizing and honoring the dignity and wisdom held within each of us. In times such as these, imagination is a superpower and a lifeline to a world of healing, wholeness, and kinship.

So it is precisely in these moments of rupture that we must summon the courage to tell our stories and to find inspiration and strengthen solidarity in receiving the stories of others.

Over the course of two days we will gather to deepen our wisdom through listening and sharing, to celebrate the gifts of community, and to find respite and renewal. Gathering in the spirit of friendship, seeking nourishment in spiritual practice, and committed to paths of honesty and vulnerability, together we will explore what it means to live, love, and lead in a climate-changed world. As always, Convocation 2025 will include music, poetry, and ritual; plenary sessions and small-group conversation; opportunities to engage with nature; and contemplative practice.

Held annually, continuously since 1905, Convocation is a legacy program of Bangor Theological Seminary, predecessor to The BTS Center.

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