
YOUR JOURNEY BEGINS HERE
Zephyr Point Retreat Center, Tahoe
August 3rd - 8th, 2025
Dr. Lisa Fullam & the Rev. Dr. John Mabry
Dr. Lisa Fullam D.V.M., Th.D. is prof. emerita of moral theology from the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University (JST-SCU) and associate veterinarian at New Baltimore Animal Hospital in West Coxsackie, NY. After veterinary studies at Cornell, she earned a doctorate in Christian ethics from Harvard Divinity School. Research interests include virtue ethics, medical, veterinary medical, and sexual ethics, the intersection of ethics and spirituality, and Ignatian spirituality. Her research interests include the intersection of ethics and spirituality, and Ignatian spirituality. She is also the author of The Virtue of Humility: A Thomistic Apologetic and last year co-wrote Living Prayer: A Book of Hours for Renewing Creation. After 19 years at JST-SCU, she and her husband John R. Mabry packed up their house and their boxer dogs and headed to the upper Hudson Valley in NY where she resumed veterinary practice.
Rev. Dr. John R. Mabry, PhD. currently teaches comparative theology at the Chaplaincy Institute, an interfaith seminary in Berkeley, CA, where he also directs the interfaith spiritual direction certificate program. John holds a PhD. in Philosophy & Religion from the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, CA. He also holds a Master's degree in Culture and Creation Spirituality from Holy Names College in Oakland, CA. In 1991 John was ordained to the priesthood in the Independent Sacramental Movement and raised to the episcopate in 2007 by the Old Catholic Order of Holy Wisdom. In 2012 he resigned his episcopacy to become a pastor in the United Church of Christ. He served as pastor of Grace North Church UCC/NACCC in Berkeley for 27 years. He currently has a private practice in spiritual direction and spiritual direction supervision. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of the Apocryphile Press, a small publishing company specializing in edgy spirituality and books that “normal” religious publishers wouldn’t touch with a 10-foot pole.