“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 2026 Conference
Meister Eckhart for Today:
Break(ing) through Despair to Hope
– 2nd Special U.S. Conference
April 9-11, 2026 – St. Matthew’s Cathedral, Washington, D.C. – hybrid (in-person & online)
Thursday 9th April (Gathering, Overview)
Friday 10th – Saturday 11th April (Talks, Discussions, Shared Reflections)
St. Matthew’s Cathedral, Washington D.C.
Speakers & Working Titles (TBC) include:
- Thomas Aquinas & Meister Eckhart: Civil Discourse & Engagement
- Anastasia Wendlinder, PhD (Gonzaga University)
- Masculine Despair & Feminine Hope: Maimonides, Eckhart & C. G. Jung
- Yossef Schwartz, PhD (Tel Aviv University)
- Practicing Detachment
- L.J. Milone, D.Min. (Catholic Cathedral, Washington, D.C.)
- Wholeness and Holiness: Meister Eckhart’s Alchemy of Healing
- M. Ali Lakhani, KC (Sacred Web)
- Eckhart & Kierkegaard: AI, Authenticity, & the Repair for Despair
- Ronald Haynes, MA (University of Cambridge)
- Making God’s Name Vain: An Apophatic Critique of Christian Nationalism
- Marvin Lee Anderson, PhD (University of Toronto)
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