The Rev. Tom Ward is an Episcopal priest for over 30 years and engaged with the contemplative dimension of the Gospel and the practice of Centering Prayer since 1988. Tom is the service team leader on the Resource Faculty for Retreats, is a commissioned presenter and retreat staff for Contemplative Outreach in Sewanee, Tennessee. He is well known throughout the CO community and wrote a very rich first person account of what happens on an intensive Centering Prayer retreat, his first intensive retreat http://scr.bi/d9w0Ba.

At the conference on the day of spiritual enrichment Tom will present, “Awakening to Voices of the Tradition” - voices from Scripture, the Desert Mothers and Fathers and Thomas Merton.