Of Hearth & Shadow: Notes From Black Stone Sanctuary
Black Stone SanctuaryAn interfaith URL-to-IRL monastic retreat project stewarded by contemplative animists with a goth nesting instinct.
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Announcement: Worship Service to Nótt + FBSS Gathering in Eugene, OR
The Night - oil painting by Peter Nicolai Arbo (public domain, 1887)
Friends of Black Stone Sanctuary is pleased to announce our upcoming interfaith worship service and “church business” gathering — our first in Eugene.
Basic...
Housing + Worship Space: Exploring Options for Friends of Black Stone Sanctuary
Art by Trish Deneen
In 2022, Black Stone Sanctuary published Toward a Cottage Cluster Monastery to outline how we were thinking about finding a potential IRL location at that time.
Plenty has changed since then — BSS has shifted our prope...
Introducing Friends of Black Stone Sanctuary (FBSS)
Black Stone Sanctuary art by Trish Deneen
After an extended hiatus, Black Stone Sanctuary is finally reviving Of Hearth & Shadow — our long-dormant Substack publication (you’re reading it!) — and resuming our local outreach work.
This yea...
Welcome to Of Hearth & Shadow: Notes From Black Stone Sanctuary
Editor’s Note (27 Nov 2025): The Sanctuary has returned to Substack!
Most of the archived materials have now been restored to their original Substack URLs, and new posts are in the works.
This is a fully revised and updated version of ou...
Black Stone Sanctuary YouTube Channel Update
Editor’s Note: This is a lightly edited “reprint” of a post originally published on Paragraph (16 March 2025).
I promised in my most recent post, Deep Resilience: A Need for Renewal, that I would come back when I had information about our...
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