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Hi Fidelity A few months ago I sat stock still in an upstairs mocked-up recording studio at the farm, for hour upon recording hour, leafing through several hundred pages of manuscript to make an audio version of Matrimony: Ritual, Culture and the Heart's Work. Gregory Hoskins, my Grief/Mystery partner, was...

East West Books and Gifts will interview Stephen Jenkinson on his new book, Matrimony: Ritual, Culture, and the Heart's Work Sunday October 12th, 11am PT/ 2pm ET / 6pm GMT Join Us "How we are with each other, certainly in the heights and depths of our heart's life, is how we are with what...

The Scriptorium Ribbon Cutting The creation of The Scriptorium ~ Echos of an Orphan Wisdom marks a significant milestone in the evolution of the Orphan Wisdom School. Chris Christou is one of the Scriptorium's translator scribes. To honour the opening of the Scriptorium Library Chris will have a live conversation with Stephen Jenkinson...

Charged with Spirit Work by Nathalie Roy How do gladiolas blossom in the face of weeks of sweltering heat​? ​With siren sounds of the insect world in my ear, ​this dusty mosquito screen claims my morning attentiveness​. Beyond the dappled light I hear ​Stephen, Dustin and ​friends hewing ​log​s with ​retempered...

Tad Hargrave has been sitting with Stephen Jenkinson this past Spring and Summer to interview him for the upcoming event Arc and Craft this November, 2025. Here is a brilliant excerpt for one of these meetings: Tad: It’s, I suppose, a question that comes up for me is, given the incredible...

TO MOTHER AND FATHER CULTURE A 2-Day Reckoning Live with Stephen Jenkinson and Kimberly Ann Johnson The last UK event of 2025 in which Stephen Jenkinson works his new book Matrimony: Ritual, Culture, and the Heart’s Work. We will have copies at the event for sale.   Join Us  

Stephen Jenkinson's new book Matrimony: Ritual, Culture, and the Heart's Work has now been out for just over a week. Stephen has done many interviews in the last months. They include conversations with Nate Hagens (The Great Simplification), Mark Walsh (The Embodiment Coaching Podcast), Tiff Cook, (Rolling with the...

Stephen Jenkinson and Kimberly Johnson Live in Oxford, UK September 15 &16, 2025 What becomes of us when sovereignty is the prize, autonomy the moral code, and AI is a stand-in for critical thinking and a surrogate for reality? How do we revive culture in a globalized, homogenized, touch-deprived world? What does village-making look...

Banyen Books and Sound presents: Free Livestream Discussion with Stephen Jenkinson on his new book Matrimony: Ritual, Culture and the Heart's Work. Wednesday Sept. 10th 12 noon PT (60 mins) Broadcast from Vancouver, BC More Details Here Life is rarely better than when there's a little money in the pocket, a little time at hand, and an...

Stephen Jenkinson and Kimberly Johnson Live in Oxford September 15 & 16, 2025 Things we deem 'inevitable' we rarely credit with merit or worth. In my corner of the world there's a long list of inevitables that to us, without effort, like weather, rise and prevail. It includes death, taxes, the new/improved...

Livestream celebration of the release of Matrimony: Ritual, Culture and the Heart's Work This Sunday, 10 August, noon ET "… start with your poverty. Let the kids see you doing it. Your example will be the post and beam of the ritual house they’ll be able to live in when it’s their...

What follows is an aside of sorts. I was asked to write something about how I'm doing, about the lay of the land, with my book on Matrimony about to come out. This is what happened instead. You never know. What do you suppose they were thinking, those brainy, driven,...

THE HOLY STATE Love is all there is. Love is all you need. Two forgivable extremes. Ordinary life suffers when compared to that kind of certainty. Maybe a bit of the world suffers, too. * When young people asked me to do their weddings years ago, they used words like 'authentic', 'meaningful', ''personal', ''special' to describe...

FROM THE INSIDE There are odds, and there are likelihoods. And then there's what happens. The odds were against the Matrimony book from the early going. The publisher I counted on rejected it outright, by email, which I took too personally. There was that business of the pandemic, which rejigged the...

The last Wave of the Scriptorium Fundraiser opens today. In celebration of Stephen Jenkinson's forthcoming book Matrimony: Ritual, Culture, and the Heart's Work, we are including a few venerable Indigo items in the fundraiser and this excerpt: "…etiquette, style, grace, and wizardry were the media and currencies of trade, and of a well-wrought...

Made To Measure Some things it isn't wise to get used to. Saying goodnight to a loved one. Having children at your feet. Breathing. Rising in the morning of your own accord, and dressing. And having books appear in the world with your elbow grease on them. This soon to appear blue-bound...

  If you're old enough to remember when music was only records and radio, then you remember the ignominious B-side. Purely a consequence of physics (you had to have another side of the record) and enamel, the B-side was the inevitable, unequal twin of the A-side, the hit. As in...

Offering Bowls We’ve just opened up another wave of the Scriptorium fundraiser. Our third new and renewed items include handmade offering bowls, created in Italy using gorgeous hand dug Albisola marina white clay, are coated with beeswax gathered from the Orphan Wisdom bee hives. There used to be two of these...

Greetings, A few of us are now deep into transcription work with The Scriptorium Library and the upcoming Boreal Session in mind. The following excerpt comes from what turned out to be the last class of The Orphan Wisdom School: 2022 - Cohort: The People Who Are So Stephen speaking about: Language/...

A message from Kimberly Johnson~ I am thrilled to invite you to Arc + Craft: An Exploration of Creativity and Culture Making. A 5 day gathering with Stephen Jenkinson, Tad Hargrave and me in November 2025 at Ghost Ranch, New Mexico. This event is years in the conceiving and conjuring. Last year...

There is a tenet – unspoken mostly, but governing nonetheless – that has become our cultural compass when it comes to how life begins and how it ends. It goes like this: If you can, you should. In the death trade, that line isn’t a preference. It’s a religion. The technology...