February 7, 10:00 am
Registration: Cost $30
Sara Billups, author of the popular book “Nervous Systems: Spiritual Practices to Calm Anxiety in Your Body, the Church and Politics,” will guide a day of reflection, spiritual practice, and conversation in Olympia.
An accessible entrance is available off the parking lot on 19th Avenue and the church is on Intercity Transit bus route 13.
All are welcome. Registration information is available at https://stjohnsoly.org/. If you wish to purchase it, the book is available through online and local booksellers.
Cost is $40, including lunch. If cost is a barrier to attending, scholarships are available by contacting the church office at (360) 352-8527 or anna@stjohnsoly.org.
Billups is a Seattle-based writer and cultural commentator whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Christianity Today, Aspen Ideas, and others. Sara writes Bitter Scroll, a monthly Substack letter and co-hosts the podcast That’s the Spirit. She earned a Doctor of Ministry in the Sacred Art of Writing at the Peterson Center for the Christian Imagination at Western Theological Seminary.
Sara works to help wavering Christians remain steadfast through cultural storms and continues to hope for the flourishing of the Church amid deep political and cultural division in America.
