Fr. Philip LeMasters and Brian Zahnd will provide the keynote addresses throughout the weekend, while scholars, practitioners, clergy, lay theologians, and contemplatives will give additional talks and present papers on the themes of the Symposium Retreat. The event is deliberately ecumenical in nature to allow for meaningful dialogue on these important subjects and the opportunity to practice mutual hospitality by drawing from the many rich textures of our eclectic yet common past for application in the present.

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Set at All Saints of North American Orthodox Monastery in Dewdney, British Columbia, Canada, the IRPJ-OPF Symposium Retreat will draw inspiration from the beauty and serenity of the landscape.

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The Institute for Religion, Peace and Justice is an initiative of St. Stephen's University and operates in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia, Canada. Its mission is to be a teaching, research, and resource institute of St. Stephen’s University that provides students, scholars, practitioners, and any thoughtful person with a robust education and experience that integrate attentiveness to one's inner transformation, peace theology and social justice, an understanding of the role of religion in peace and violence, and practical peacemaking as a vocation and way of life.

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The Orthodox Peace Fellowship is a pan-Orthodox organization dedicated to the active pursuit of peace as taught in the Gospel of Jesus Christ from an Orthodox Christian perspective. In Communion is the name of the educational and publishing arm of the Orthodox Peace Fellowship. Several book series, a podcast, blog, university courses, this website, and an occasional journal are among the many initiatives of In Communion. Our mission is to promote the fullness of the faith through research and education.