The 2017 annual meeting of the Guild of Scholars was held at the Holy Cross Monastery in West Park, New York, on the Hudson River.

The topics and speakers at West Park were:

Music as Liberation Theology
Donna Gaines, SUNY Empire State College

The Emperor’s New Astronomy
Kitty Ferguson, Independent Scholar

Deeds Done in God
David Burton, Ohio University emeritus

Becoming Benedictine: A One Hundred Year Odyssey
Brother Robert James  OHC

Wonder and Ethics
David H. Smith, Indiana University emeritus