Clergy Retreat Scheduled for April 28-30

Clergy of the Diocese of South Carolina are invited to attend this year’s Clergy Retreat April 28-30, 2024, at St. Christopher Camp & Conference Center. Clergy should have already received an email invitation with details and a link to registration, also available at this link.

The retreat—previously known as Clergy Conference—is the annual gathering of active and retired priests and deacons serving in our diocese, hosted by the bishop and usually including presentations from a special guest speaker. This year’s speaker is the Reverend Dr. Amy Bentley Lamborn, who will give a series of retreat talks entitled “Practicing Resurrection: Spaces of Aliveness.”

Dr. Lamborn currently serves as Vicar of the Southeast Tennessee Episcopal Ministry (STEM) and Visiting Faculty in Pastoral Theology at the School of Theology, University of the South, Sewanee. She is also a Jungian analyst and pastoral psychotherapist in private practice. Lamborn previously served as professor of Pastoral Theology at the General Theological Seminary, visiting professor in psychology and religion at Marymount Manhattan College, and lecturer at the Union Theological Seminary. 

Dr. Lamborn’s scholarly work focuses on the relationship between depth psychology and theology. Her publications include such topics as interdisciplinary methodology, Trinitarian theology and models of self/subjectivity, and Jungian psychology, phenomenology, and theology. Her most recent essay, “From Ghost to Ancestor: Transforming Jung’s Racial Complex,” was published in Jungian Reflections on Systemic Racism (Routledge, 2023). And her essay, “The Fourth Reduction: Carl Jung, Richard Kearney, and the Via Tertia of Otherness,” was a finalist for the Gradiva Awards “Best Essay” in 2012. Her book, Figuring the Self, Figuring the Sacred:  Imagining Unity and Multiplicity in Depth Psychology and Theology, will be published by Pickwick Publications in 2025.

Dr. Lamborn enjoys good literature and film, as well as British crime shows.  She is passionate about cooking/Southern hospitality, road cycling, and playing classical music (piano). We look forward to her joining the bishop and clergy of the diocese for what promises to be a rich springtime retreat at St. Christopher. ​

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