Spiritual Transformation
After 28 years of intensive personal mission in Europe, Clark and Ann Peddicord and a team of friends and spiritual advisors founded Philosophia International as a spiritual community for the 21st century.
Spiritual Transformation
After 28 years of intensive personal mission in Europe, Clark and Ann Peddicord and a team of friends and spiritual advisors founded Philosophia International as a spiritual community for the 21st century.Our desire is to live and articulate a transforming spiritual vision for individuals and society, a vision for truly empowering human relationships that is rooted in the message and life of Jesus.
Philosophia’s mission is spiritual transformation: to provide tools, opportunities and community to people in every culture who want a different kind of world and are seeking spiritual depth, dialogue and a transforming vision for society, academia and the church.
Philosophia is committed to being on the “front-line” in facing the secular culture of our age and confronting the thought-life & worldview of our time.
In J.R.R. Tolkien’s saga, The Lord of the Rings, darkness threatened
to engulf the world. But there was a deeper purpose working in spite of
everything. A deep power of Good moved Frodo and his friends out
of the comfort of their home to go on a quest to destroy the evil ring of
power. Deep in the mines of Moria, Frodo says to Gandalf: "“I wish the Ring
had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.”
Gandalf: “So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide.
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
There are other forces at work in this world besides the will of evil.
Bilbo was meant to find the Ring. In which case you were also meant to have it.
And that is an encouraging thought.” This is our hope in Philosophia, too:
a deep power of Good has called us together “for such a time as this”.
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