“If you seek God and seek Him for your own profit and bliss, then in truth you are not seeking God.”
(German sermon 11, trans M. O’C. Walshe)
The Eckhart Society Washington DC 2025 Conference
Meister Eckhart for Today – Special U.S. Conference
May 15-17, 2025 – St. Matthew’s Cathedral, Washington, D.C.

Thursday 15th May (Gathering, Overview)
Friday 16th May – Saturday 17th May (Talks, Reflections)
St. Matthew’s Cathedral, Washington D.C.
Speakers:
- Keynote: Joel Harrington, PhD
- Vanderbilt University Professor of History, German Studies, Religion
– “How Dangerous Was/Is Meister Eckhart?”
- Vanderbilt University Professor of History, German Studies, Religion
- Anastasia Wendlinder, PhD (Gonzaga University)
– Eckhart & Spirituality in a Post-Covid World - Yossef Schwartz, PhD (Tel Aviv University)
– Mysticism’s Challenge to Philosophy: Past and Present - L.J. Milone, D.Min. (Catholic Cathedral, Washington, D.C.)
– “The Nothing Whose Light is All Lights”: Reflections on Sermon 71 - M. Ali Lakhani, KC (Sacred Web)
– The Nature of Nature: A Comparative Look at “Nature” in Eckhart, Sufism and Shakespeare’s King Lear - Ronald Haynes, MA (University of Cambridge)
– Eckhart on Stages/Stagnation in Spiritual Science - Marvin Lee Anderson, PhD (University of Toronto)
– ‘Not Yet Mother’: Mary as Eckhart’s Exemplar for Birthing God in a Time of Fear
Conference Flier (PDF)