Saturday Retreat: Being with Literature

Liz Waldy is the Spirituality Lead at the London Jesuit Centre. She began her Ignatian journey about 13 years ago, and has been leading retreats at the centre for many years, she is a trained spiritual director, and before joining the team worked in fundraising and marketing in the charity sector. She lives in South London where she seeks to live a contemplative life whilst enjoying finding God in all the riches of London life, especially theatre, art and all the great places to walk.

Aidan is a tutor in Social and Environmental Justice stream. He completed his PhD at the Divinity Faculty of the University of Cambridge in 2018. During his doctoral studies he ran as a Parliamentary candidate for the Green Party. He is the author of two academic books: Jewish Christians in Puritan England (2020) and Israelism in Modern Britain (2021). Between 2020 and 2022 he worked as a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at St Mary's University in London.