2018 Through the Door to Holiness Conference

Worship the Lord in the Beauty of Holiness

October 1 - 3, 2018
Christ the King Spiritual Life Center

Once again the Sisters of St. Mary and Christ the King Center will offer an ecumenical conference with speakers from several denominational settings to address to topic of Holiness in personal and corporate life.

Look for inspiring talks, uplifting worship from varied settings and challenging discussions on the role and witness of Holiness in contemporary life.

​Led by Keynote Speaker, the Most Rev'd and Rt. Hon. George Carey, 103rd Archbishop of Canterbury, leaders from multiple Christian traditions will address questions like:

• Why is holiness so important?
• What happens when it collides with culture?
• Can one be holy alone or is holiness a corporate activity?  
• What if the Church goes astray? How do we challenge it? Is it ever right to leave a disobedient Church? 
• How does holiness reflected in sacrificial living become a gift for the world?
• If holiness is a corporate gift from God that transcends denominations, how might the beauty of holiness transform ecumenical life?

Travel info may be found here or on Christ the King Center homepage, by clicking the word "Directions" in the Contact Us box on the left of the page. Convenient flights are available into Albany International Airport, Stewart International Airport, Newburgh, NY, and Hartford, CT. Christ the King Center is located at 575 Burton Rd near Greenwich, NY. Travel time to the Center is approximately one hour from Albany Airport, two hours from Stewart Airport and three hours from Hartford. Car rentals are available at all airports. Check back with us in September for shuttle information and costs. Please call center staff at (518)692-9550 for further information about accommodations. 

A full schedule of events may be found by clicking here.  Conference registration and check-in begins Tuesday morning, October 2, at 8AM at the Great Hall. Early registration  and check-in for sponsors or their designees begins Monday at 2PM at the Welcome Center. The Conference concludes at 4PM on Wednesday.

You may register and pay online here, or by calling St. Mary's Convent at (518)692-3028. Single-occupancy, camp lodging, and commuter registration are subject to availability.

Questions? Contact us here.

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Conference Keynote Speaker

The Most Reverend and Right Honorable
 George Carey
103rd Archbishop of Canterbury (retired)

Conference Speakers

The Rev'd Mark A. Michael​

Rector of St. Francis' Episcopal Parish, Potomac, MD

Growing into the Full Stature: Holiness in Family Life

Father Mark Michael will discuss family life as a response to God's call and the blessing of helping children grow in the knowledge and love of God.  His talk will include practical guidance on teaching the faith at home, cultivating children's spiritual imagination, and encouraging the eternal virtues in a transient and disenchanting age.  Father Mark and his wife, Pastor Allison Michael are the parents of two young sons.  

Mother Miriam, CSM​

Superior, Community of St. Mary, Eastern Province

Holiness in the Monastic Calling: Also Growing into the Full Stature of Christ

in response to Fr. Mark's presentation of the personal and domestic strands of holiness in a priestly family, Mother Miriam will be speaking on the differences in celibate monastic striving for holiness, complementary to his family-centered approach for the sake of the Church. Mother Miriam has been Superior of St. Mary's Convent for twenty-two years.

Dr. Christopher Wells​

Editor, Living Church

The Anglican Perspective on Holiness in the Beauty of the Church

Deacon Evan Freeman, Ph.D

Lecturer in Liturgical Art
St. Vladimir's Orthodox Seminary

Heaven on Earth: Beauty as a Path to Holiness in the Orthodox Church

The pagan Prince Vladimir of Kiev sent emissaries to Constantinople toward the end of the tenth century. Observing the liturgy in the Church of Hagia Sophia, his emissaries reported: “We knew not whether we were in heaven or on earth, for on earth there is no such splendor or such beauty.” Dn. Evan's talk explores the role of beauty in Orthodox liturgical arts. Beginning with the microcosmic symbolism of Orthodox church architecture, Dn. Evan considers the ecclesiological, historical, and eschatological aspects of the iconographic and liturgical cycles. He concludes by explaining how the Orthodox liturgical  synthesis of all of the arts, fashions the human person into the ultimate icon of God.

The Rev'd Dr. Esau McCaulley

Assistant Professor of New Testament &Early Christianity
Northeastern Seminary, Rochester, NY

The beauty of Holiness
in a Broken World

The Rev'd Dr. Doug Collum

Dean,
Northeastern Seminary, Rochester, NY

Therapeia Psyches: Deep Healing from a Wesleyan Perspective

This talk would explore Wesley's emphasis on holistic salvation as personal, social, and cosmic healing. From a Wesleyan perspective, there is no part of the fabric of creation where God's restorative grace cannot reach. God's gracious intention is a cosmic healing in which the broken places of our lives and our world are filled with the beauty of wholeness and holiness.

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Highlights of the 2016 Conference
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Walk Through the
Door to Holiness

Thanks to Lord and Lady Carey, Father Chad Hatfield, Doug Collum, Bishop Scharfenberger, and all those who made our first Holiness Conference a success.

Videos below from the 2016 Conference,
​courtesy of Anglican TV.