We’ve loved Nichole 🍞🍯 UPDATES ONLY FOR REAL THIS TIME 😵 for AGES so we’re especially thrilled about this new pilgrimage!!

Vanessa was lucky enough to be featured on 'Faith Matters' with All Things Considered in a TWO PART INTERVIEW. You can listen to both parts here: npr.org/2023/08/27/119…

My latest BBC documentary: More people under 40 are identifying as 'spiritual but not religious'. But where do you then turn to answer fundamental life questions? I explore the work of Nearness who help people with exactly this.

bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3c…

Episode 3 of RITUALLY is here! Nelufar Hedayat is exploring a ritual around ✨reading✨ — how to turn any text, #sacred 👀
How can we, the people of the modern age, forge our own sacred #secular texts? With special Guest Vanessa Zoltan from Harry Potter and the Sacred Text 💫
link.chtbl.com/ritually?at=10…

In our last Book 4 episode, Matt & Vanessa Zoltan look back at the book through the lens of 'intellectual humility' as part of our partnership with Greater Good. How does 'know-it-all' Hermione counterintuitively model intellectual humility? Listen here pod.link/1096113994

Harry Potter and the Sacred Text I absolutely POPPED hearing Matt’s Macho Man voice!!! Loved Vanessa bringing tag wrestling in because it was immediately what I was thinking about for this theme! Great ep fam 💖

Terrific news: our first 2024 pilgrimage is bookable! And it's a special one because, for the first time, the 3 creators of Harry Potter and the Sacred Text- Vanessa Zoltan, Casper ter Kuile, & Ariana- will leading a Harry Potter pilgrimage *together*! For more info, head here bit.ly/hpdevon

Mars is trying to figure out if it's time for them to quit their uterus-- the 4 days a month they have their period cause them great suffering, but is that reason enough to give up on ever carrying a child? Vanessa Zoltan helps Mars discern. Listen here: ow.ly/6rNo50OS0v1

We’re just asking questions.

When I road trip from North Carolina to Massachusetts and back again, I take my favorite friends with me Potterless Harry Potter and the Sacred Text Audible

We have been developing Literary Chaplaincy for more than a year now & we're SO delighted to share it with you. This style of chaplaincy has been a pillar of our Common Ground Pilgrimages for years & we're so excited to share it more broadly. Learn more at bit.ly/litchap

As the HPST team is away at CAMP, we're taking a break from our usual programming this week. Instead, we've got a pair of episodes from our Women of Harry Potter series featuring bayana a. davis 👩🏿🐲 & Robyn-Renée is watching 🏀 🏀, the founders of Black Nerds Create. Listen here: ow.ly/VXfj50OJ93B

We're thrilled to announce that registration is now open for our new cohort of What Matters: bit.ly/whatmatters2023

If you would like to learn [big wink] what matters about What Matters, come to our open house on Tuesday, 6/13 at 12pm ET-- we'll share a link & reminder Tues!