This week’s wrap-up talk is about the part we usually skip over: creating an environment that makes quiet practices sustainable. Silence, simplicity, and sabbath are beautiful ideas but they require intentionality on our part to make those practices stick.

This week’s installment in our Quiet Practices for Loud Times series asks us to rethink our relationship with rest, not just as something we do to recover from working, but as essential preparation for living in our noisy, chaotic world.

Week 2 of Quiet Practices for Loud Times is all about Simplicity. Modern life runs on more: more options, more inputs, more tabs open (in your browser and your brain).

This week we’re stepping into a new series at C3 called Quiet Practices for Loud Times and Brad Ruggles leads us off with his talk, "Silence."

Cait West, author of Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy, shares her own prespective.

Michael Dewilde returns as Core Teacher this week. Accompanying Michael will be a few GVSU students, who have agreed to share their perspectives on the topic, “The Purpose of the University in an Era of AI, Animosity, and Anxiety.”

Michael Dewilde provides an interesting reflection on people, society, and its norms.

Our own Beth Buelow presents her talk on, "What's Mine? Thoughts, on Saying, Doing, and Caring.

Our own C3 member Tod Wyn fills in for Brad Ruggles this week and delivers his talk about the courage of giving up.

We arrive at Winter Solstice, the longest night and shortest day of the year. In a season when many of us feel the weight of less light and, at times, the heaviness of depression. Instead, we’ll explore what it means to walk together into the dark and to meet winter with honesty, gentleness, and open hearts.