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Knitting & Quilting Retreat Celebrates 20 Years
A STORY OF FAITH AND FIBER: Varian Brandon’s Knitting and Quilting Retreat Celebrates 20 Years On a crisp western North Carolina day in 2003 while accomplished knitter and instructor Varian Brandon, originally from Columbia, South Carolina, was on a family Christmas retreat at Kanuga, she came across two knitters. One was a guest knitting during...
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Kanuga Receives Program Grant from Trinity Church
Kanuga is pleased to share that a grant from Trinity Church will make possible a new program: Kanuga Leadership Residency.  The project grant of $370,000 will fund the creation of a hybrid leadership training program for clergy and lay leaders. The curriculum will advance The Episcopal Church’s mission to restore all people to unity with...
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Kanuga Welcomes Newfoundland Therapy Group
With its two missions closely aligned on providing hope and healing, Kanuga and TimberKnolls Spirit Cove, a nonprofit equine and canine therapy program, are collaborating to bring the organization’s headquarters to the region. TimberKnolls Spirit Cove provides services at no charge to veterans, military families, firefighters, EMS workers, doctors, nurses, teachers, and trauma victims. The...
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Michael Sullivan Reflects on 2022 Compass Rose Experience
Belonging Reflections on the 2022 Compass Rose Society Gathering —Michael Sullivan I stood at the west door of Westminster Abbey and stared down the nave, mesmerized. With the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier steps in front of me, I could not believe I was there. Alone. Just me in the space claimed sacred since the...
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