Spiritual Friendship Retreat, Columbus
Join us for 1½ days of teaching, reflection & connection.
7pm, Friday, Nov. 6 -
5:30pm, Saturday, Nov. 7
Scarlet City Church
114 Morse Road, Columbus, OH
Our world is in desperate need of friendship. Fortunately, God extends a friendship to us that we can learn to extend to one another.
Join us for a 1½-day guided retreat, centered on cultivating and recovering the practice of spiritual friendship—in our lives and in our local churches.
Sessions are led by spiritual director, pastor and founding director (Order of the Common Life) Jared Boyd along with author and chapel director (Baylor University) Rev. Erin Moniz.
“We call friends those we have no qualms about entrusting our heart and all its contents.”
Retreat overview
Friday Evening
6:30pm. Doors open (*food truck on-site from 5-7pm)
7:00pm. Worship
7:30pm. Session 01: The theology of spiritual friendship, and why it matters (Jared Boyd)
8:30pm. Prayer ministry
Saturday Morning
8:30am. Doors open
9:00am. Worship
9:15am. Session 02a: Why is friendship so hard? (Erin Moniz)
10:15am. Break
10:30am. Session 02b: Group interaction
Saturday Afternoon
2:00pm. Session 03: Workshopping spiritual friendship (Erin Moniz)
3:15pm. Break
3:30pm. Worship
4:00pm. Session 04: Closing talk (Jared Boyd)
Retreat leaders
Jared Patrick Boyd, OCL, is a spiritual director, a local pastor, and the founding director of the Order of the Common Life. He’s the author of Imaginative Prayer(IVP, 2017) and Finding Freedom in Constraint: Reimagining Spiritual Disciplines as a Communal Way of Life(IVP, 2023).
Rev. Erin Moniz (DMin, Trinity School for Ministry) is a deacon in the Anglican Church in North America and associate chaplain and director for chapel at Baylor University. She’s the author of Knowing & Being Known: Hope for All Our Intimate Relationships (IVP, 2025); is a trained conciliator, mediator, and conflict coach; and lives in Waco, Texas, with her husband, Michael.
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We want to offer this retreat to the city generously through the generosity of others, and to do this we invite you into a practice of shared economy with us, offering what you’re able to so anyone can attend.