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Join Stephen Jenkinson in-person this summer for | STAGGERED • STILLED • SUMMONED  | A Thinking Man’s Brush With Neurodegeneration | July 16-19, 2026 | Orphan Wisdom Hall | Ontario,...

In case your life has been uneventful lately: no matter how anticlimactic or prosaic that might sound, there is great merit in a slow moving, recoverable life. It affords its...

To imagine, to dream that an ocean away, on the far side of half a millenium's separation, there are people willing to give you a hearing, or a chance, or...

Time was I saw no likelihood that I'd have any of you to the Orphan Wisdom teaching hall ever again. It was a frailty in the imaginal extremities that had...

THE ROAD | Just the sound of the those two words together makes something inside of me leap. Sometimes it's a recipe for disaffection. Sometimes it soothes it. But I've...

SECOND CHANCE SMOKE | In a shaky world you'd think you might take refuge in a clear eyed regard for your own little likelihoods: what you're capable of, and keen...

Matrimony in Real Time | Stephen Jenkinson | March 21-22, 2026 | Victoria, BC, Canada | Ten seats remain | It's a hundred years since Eliot unleashed The Waste Land...

Two Pieces of News | Last week a mix of Orphan Wisdom Scholars and Orphan Wisdom Scribes gathered in the Great Hall to transcribe a 2017 recording. Then this past...

The Jesus Session | A Livestream Event | January 10th and 11th | The spirit of translation. The translation of spirit. | A taste of what we might be in...