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Thomas Potter Homestead

Original Meeting House at Murray Grove

Murray Grove Lodge House, 1890

Murray Grove Memorial Boulder, 1902

Programs & Events

At Murray Grove Retreat and Renewal Center, you can hold your family, business, spiritual, or non-profit program or event. You can also attend one of the regularly scheduled events that our expert staff organizes. Murray Grove programs are open to the public. All are welcome!

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Murray Grove Sponsored Events
• Dance & Drum Fest
• Grove Gatherings at Murray Grove
(Monthly Coffee Houses with live entertainment)
• Heritage Week
• Homecoming
• John Murray Distinguished Lectures
• Rainbow Circles at Murray Grove
(GLBTQQI Community events)

Murray Grove Hosted Programs
• LesComfortZone (Lesbian Gatherings)
• Murray Grove Zen Group
• Step into Freedom (AA Women’s Group)

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Dance and Drum Fest

The 2011 Drum and Dance Fest Was a Great Success!

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Grove Gatherings - Coffee Houses

Grove Gatherings at Murray Grove
Coffee Houses

A variety of artists and visual arts featured in English Folk Music Club format, where performers share their craft and engage the audience.

Frank Fotusky enthralled a full-house of avid listeners at the final Grove Gathering of 2011. Following a very successful Holiday Handmade Craft Fair, it was a very fitting end to a wonderful season. Thank you to all of the performers and coffee house regulars who made 2011 so special!

The next Grove Gathering will be in March 2012. Keep watching this space for details as they become available.

Doors open at 6:30
7:00-9:00 entertainment

$10 per person donation,
children under 12, $5

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Kindly RSVP to murraygrove@murraygrove.org or call
609-693-5558.

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Heritage Week

Thank you Heritage Week Team for a Memorable Week!

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Homecoming

Murray Grove Homecoming 2015 – Celebrating 245 Years

For more information, please call 609-693-5558
or click here to email us.

Homecoming 2010, celebrating our 240th anniversary, was a huge success. Thank you to everyone involved!

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John Murray Distinguished Lectures

For over twenty years, Murray Grove has sponsored the John Murray Distinguished Lecture at the UUA General Assembly. The mission of the Lecture is to explore how Universalism contributes to the Unitarian Universalism of today.

2011: Rev. William Sinkford, "Be Not Conformed to this World"
2010: Rebecca Parker, “Connecting Beauty and Justice”
2009: Nathan C. Walker, “A Ministry of Mediation”
2008: William F. Schulz, “The Future of Human Rights”
2007: Paul Rasor, “Universalism and the Sectarian Element in Liberal Religion”
2006: Robert M. Hardies, “Hospitality and Grace”
2005: Charles J. Stephens, “Universalist Principles Place Us at a Cutting Edge”
2004: Marilyn Sewell, “A Message of Hope in a Time of Despair”
2003: Rosemary Bray McNatt, “Love and Power: The Universalist Dilemma”
2002: Cancelled
2001: Tom Chulak, “An Evolving Partnership: The Rise of Universalism Since Merger”
2000: Thomas Owen-Towle, “A Lover’s Quarrel: Unitarian Universalists Wrestling with God”
1999: Alma Faith Crawford, “Theology Is Not a Luxury: Choosing Coherence”
1998: Terry Sweetser, “So Much More”
1997: Elias Farajaje-Jones, “Come Down Into the Darkness”
1996: John A. Buehrens, “Evil, Race, and Us”
1995: Richard S. Gilbert, “The Galloping Gospel According to Angus Hector MacLean”
1994: Carl Seaburg, “Clarence Skinner: Building a New Kind of Church”
1993: Rebecca Parker, “It Matters What We Imagine”
1992: Janet H. Bowering, “Compelling Landfall”
1991: Gordon D. Gibson, “The Rediscovery of Judith Sargent Murray”
1990: David A. Johnson, “Augusta Chapin: Universalist Pioneer, Missionary, Prophet”
1989: Charles A. Howe, “Under Orders from No Man: Universalist Women Preachers Before the Civil War”
1988: Gordon B. McKeeman, “Valiant Witness for High Religion”
1987: Ernest Cassara, “The New World of John Murray”

These lectures are funded, in part, by the New York State Convention of Universalists and the Pennsylvania Universalist Convention. We appreciate their support!

Donations to defray the costs of sponsoring this lecture series, as well as to support our year-round efforts to preserve and promote our Universalist heritage, are always welcome.

Checks made payable to "Murray Grove Association" can be mailed to:
PO Box 246 • Lanoka Harbor, NJ 08734-0246

Or click here to donate via Pay Pal:
All donations are tax-deductible.

For more information call 609-693-5558, or email us.

Watch for information on the 26th Annual John Murray Distinguished Lecture.

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Murray Grove Zen Group

The Murray Grove Zen Group is affiliated with the Cold Mountain Sangha, led by Kurt Spellmeyer, Rutgers University Professor and Master Zen Teacher. For more information consult with Prof. Spellmeyer in writing (Kurt.Spellmeyer@Rutgers.edu) to attend the session (intensive meditation retreats) held at Murray Grove five times each year.

Experience a gentle introduction to the ancient practice of meditation: learning to quiet your mind and change your heart.

Every other Saturday, 8:30 a.m.
at Murray Grove Retreat and Renewal Center
431 Rte 9, Lanoka Harbor, NJ

Everyone is welcome, regardless of meditation experience.
Donations requested. Please RSVP.

You may donate via Pay Pal:
For more information about specific dates or to sign up,
please call 609-693-5558 or click here to email us.

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