Profiles

Larry Monteith, professional photographer, is the quiet friendly presence at the back of the room at almost every Sophia Institute event, ensconced behind microphones and video equipment. Larry is a most devoted volunteer. “To me this is like tithing,” he explains. “I’d love to be one of those people who hand out $100,000 checks, but I can’t, so I do things that need to be done. Sophia brings a wonderful variety of teachers who touch on the major issues of our time – war, environment, hunger, and the need for changing the human heart.

‘I wonder if they know I’m Jewish!’ I said to myself as I entered the July 2009 workshop entitled Mary Magdalene Re-Visioned, led by Nancy Corbett and Carolyn Rivers. I was soon to find out that this was not a seminar on religion, but the beginnings of a new spiritual journey of my own.

After two episodes of cancer – one in 1995 with throat cancer and then again in 2009 with breast cancer, it was time for a new and re-visioned ME.