ICS: Courses and Retreats
Embodied Spirituality: Sleep, Worship and the Active Life as Worship
Embodied Spirituality Retreat
Led by Dave Nixon
Saturday, September 20, 2025 • 9:00 a.m.–3:30 p.m.
About the Retreat
This retreat addresses a critical and often overlooked topic in Christian circles: caring for our physical well-being as an essential part of worship in the 21st-century Western world.
The retreat includes four sessions:
- Establishing a Theology of Self-Care
- Reclaiming Our Sleep and Light
- Reclaiming Our Daily Bread
- Reclaiming an Active Life
Each session will include:
- A prayerful or meditative component
- Teaching
- Interactive questions and conversation
Event Details
Price
$65 per person. Lunch included.
Faculty/Staff Discount
Lipscomb faculty and staff: email ics [at] lipscomb.edu (ics[at]lipscomb[dot]edu) for a $20 discount code.
Registration deadline
9 a.m., September 17, 2025
Location
Faculty Club 1891, Bennett Campus Center, Lipscomb University
About Dave Nixon
David Nixon’s pursuits have been broad and varied. In his early years, he focused on ancient Greek, textual criticism, and the history of the canon, teaching several languages at both university and secondary levels. He planted and pastored an inner-city parish-style church for seven years and later ran a retreat center with his wife in a former convent.
He founded the nonprofit Sustainable Faith, which grew into the largest training organization in the world for spiritual directors. He has also studied macroeconomics and monetary policy. His current passion is establishing the School of Neighborhood Life, a network of neighborhood-bound, home-centered eucharistic communities working for the good of their neighbors.
Enduring questions that guide his work:
- How do we love well?
- What is the experience of receiving God’s love?
- What does it mean to thrive as a child of God?
- How do we yield to the Holy Spirit?
- How does the church live out its mission today?
Learn more at sustainablefaith.com.