Watchfires & Roundtables
Come out to the desert for a spell.
Come to the margin and the wild.
Come to the quiet to listen. To ask the burning questions. to pray. to see.
Watchfires
The watchfires are lit and spring up across the city and the countryside. We want to stay vigilant. To cultivate silence and solitude in the midst of the loud and the packed and the hectic. We want to listen to the deep things. We want to see again.
Watchfires are one-night events of story telling, community discussion, solitude, and prayer, focused on cultivating the heart and hands at the margins, away from the center of self and world.
The Kingfisher Fellowship primarily uses word-of-mouth, our most neighborly form of communication, to inform our community of details regarding these gatherings.
Kingfisher Roundtables
Kingfisher Roundtables are community, neighborly discussions that take place during each season. Our endeavor through reading and discussion is to cultivate a posture of imagination—to peer past what is apparent and situate our readings in the light of the unseen realm—contemplation—to set our eyes and hearts firmly on Christ— and love—to explore the ways our hearts and hands might respond in neighborliness and worship.
Autumn 2026-Spring 2027
Our Fall 2026-Spring 2027 Kingfisher Roundtables are oriented around two major issues confronting us today: artificial intelligence and the exploitation of the created world. Roundtables meet 3-4 times per book, with discussions lasting around an hour or thereabouts.
The Kingfisher Fellowship primarily uses word-of-mouth, our most neighborly form of communication, to inform our community of details regarding these gatherings.
Autumn 2026 Kingfisher Roundtable
Text: Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV
Spring 2027 Kingfisher Roundtable
Text: Laudato Si’, Pope Francis
