Celebrating 7 Years of ICN – and into a New Stage!
Dear ICN Community,
It was seven years ago, on Epiphany in 2019, Integral Christian Network was first launched. What a wonderful marker to reflect on all of the life and goodness that has come forth from this community over the years!
As co-founders, Paul Smith and I chose to launch ICN on Epiphany because we sensed—even then at the beginning—that the heart of ICN would be about the manifestation of Christ in the world. Embodied in loving community, we have come together in new and transformational ways to more fully become and express our divine/human being in this life and in the world.
Throughout Advent and Christmas, we have invoked this incarnational calling as our mutual Christophany: the manifestation of divinity in and through all things.
The last two weeks we highlighted the personal and communal aspects of this Christophany in us. On Epiphany today, we celebrate the universal manifestation of Christ, living today. This global and cosmic divine vitality and presence is alive in all things, all matter, the entire cosmos. And in this vast, universal appearance, we are included. We are a part of the continual birth and revelation of Christ still being made more manifest day by day.
ICN is about our enlivening participation in this ongoing divine arrival—expressed in each one of us, in our shared communal presence, and in the loving evolution of Christianity and the world.
Crucially, this arrival is not something we only receive. It is continually born anew in and through us. Into the world.
Each one of us has this Christ calling, or what we’ve described as our divine vocation of being Christ in the world, in our lives, and with one another. We are each invited to inhabit this calling in the beautiful ways unique to us.
We might even call this our “Christ Commissioning.”
Living more fully into the inhabiting, becoming, and expressing our divine vocation—personally and communally—is a vital next stage of ICN.
Over the last two years, ICN has transitioned from our “Founding Stage.” Paul and I came together with a call to launch what was and is ICN as a community, though from the beginning it was never just us two. We carried the initial call, but this community has always been a shared founding.
Paul’s passing in early 2024 marked the beginning of that transition in a way that was holy, hard, and beautiful. During that season, we spoke often about “grief and glory”—language that Paul himself brought forward. That phrase has become a lived reality as we continue to be with the wholeness of all that is. That year, and that process of being with both grief and glory, marked the onset of a significant shift for our community.
In many ways, 2024 was a year of releasing. It was a releasing of Paul’s living presence in bodily form, while still recognizing that he is and remains very much with us in spirit. It was also a releasing of some patterns and ways of being from the founding stage.
Through 2025, there has been more and more embracing of ways of creating, together, the evolving invitations of spirit for us as a community. We began naming this as the emerging “WeCreating Stage.”
And as we look ahead now to 2026, the time is here now for us to come into inhabiting even more fully our WeCreating as an organization and a community. We have this communal Divine Vocation as ICN.
Of course, this has been present from the beginning of ICN. We have always been a communal, WeCreating body, engaging and bringing forth life through Spirit and with one another.
And now, in this new WeCreating Stage, we are called to step more fully into this shared way of being Christ in the world.
How we do this is signified in our purpose statement:
Gathering a global community of dedicated mystical practitioners for the loving evolution of Christianity and the world.
The first movement—gathering a global community—names “the beloved community” as the foundation: the deep being of belonging and connection, sharing and growing together in the truth of our divine being.
We experience this growing communion in WeSpace groups, Sunday gatherings, Group Spiritual Companioning meetings, and in any space where we come together abiding in the kinship of beloved Christ community. Being who we truly are together.
The second movement—dedicated mystical practitioners—points to our deepening practice as our divine becoming. This is our mystical transformation, the evolution of consciousness, the ongoing and ever-in-process reality of embracing and inhabiting our divine nature. It is becoming who we are meant to be.
We live this as a community of practice in all of our shared spaces, when we specifically engage in Whole Body Mystical Awakening in WeSpace or guided meditation time, or when we show up in a different way because of our shared presence and deeper connection. This is a “rewiring” or our neural networks communally. It is the embodied, relational, and generative ways of being we grow into more and more, actively and intentionally embracing our divine participation.
The third movement—for the loving evolution of Christianity and the world—is our enaction of the many expressions of living our divine vocation in the world, personally and collectively. It is the call to stewardship that emerges from divine beckoning. As we begin from our true being and abiding communally, engaging together intentionally in our becoming, we then open to the ways spirit beckons us to how we are called to live.
This is how we participate in loving evolution as it emerges and transforms our lives, neighborhoods, cities, and world. The shape of these expressions for each of us and for our community is something we can discern together. This feels like a growing edge of our community as we deepen our understanding of divine vocation—how it is already present in our lives and how we support one another in living this calling more fully.
In 2026 and beyond, ICN will be inhabiting these ways of living our divine vocation. Which is to say, we will be WeCreating the forms and shapes of our sacred expressions together: abiding, deepening, and expressing in loving and transformational ways.
One of the initial forms of supporting this is through a divine essence process that has emerged in the last few months. It is a communal way to discern the nature of our divine vocation, arising from the most essential truths of who we are, and how that unique divine/human Christ expression longs to manifest in our lives.
Other ways will also come forth as we continue to WeCreate this emerging calling in this new stage.
I’m sad to say it, but it appears to me that the world is suffering from an extremely high unemployment rate of divine vocation.
So many have lost a deeper sense of what life is all about and missed the beautiful and enlivening invitation to our divine participation in the very act of the ongoing loving evolution and creation of the world anew.
As the changes in the world accelerate and intensify, so too must our consciousness evolve to meet the challenges and opportunities before us. We are not passive observers of history unfolding, merely responding and reacting to the changes happening in the world.
Rather, we are active participants in the sacred unfolding of love, justice, and divine creativity. We are shaping the future with our spiritual charge and calling as WeCreators of loving evolution.
This includes the necessity and gift of beloved community. That we abide deeply together in the support and care of our shared presence—and live more fully from this communion, this communal way of being, which is who we truly are.
It is not just the comfort of being together; it is the inhabiting of our true divine nature and being, not as isolated individuals but as a great interconnected web of life. A great forest with many groves, with hosts of seeds falling and germinating, and the vast network of shared roots supporting and nourishing the whole.
This includes the necessity and gift of dedicated enlivening. The commitment and intentional engagement in the essential and natural processes of becoming who we were meant to be—bearers of the divine life.
It is not just merely personal growth; it is divine becoming through the transformation of our consciousness in spirit. As we integrate more and more of the greater whole of reality, the mystical truth of the Really Real, embodied and inhabited in us. The divine life cultivated among us and sprouting forth in our lives.
This includes the necessity and gift of loving evolution expressed and manifested in the world. We are called to be the stewards and the bearers of the light of Christ, displayed and offered to the world in the many hues of splendor we reflect.
It is not obligatory service or guilt-driven action; it is the inspired and vitalized outflow of love arising from the collective emergence of the new expressions of life and wholeness for the future. From the creative impulse of divine love, healing, restoring, and amplifying the goodness of God that is blossoming and blooming in new and ancient ways, full of life and love.
What is your calling in the world today?
What is our calling the world today?
These are the living questions of our Divine Vocation that we are embracing more fully now in this new stage of ICN. We will live them in our communal abiding. In our divine becoming. And in our sacred expressions.
As we deepen our engagement with WeCreating, we open ourselves to the spiritual frontiers of evolution, stepping into our role as co-creators of the future. This is the call of our time—the charge to be WeCreators of the loving evolution of Christianity and the world.
Inhabiting this way of manifesting more fully, the arrival of Christ in the world, which we bring about together.
Following birth, there is life. And we are here together to have this life to the full, in the words of Jesus.
The great revelation of Epiphany is that this fullness arrives not when it is received, but rather when it flows through and shines forth, reflected through the shapes and forms of our particular Christ being, our divine essence, personally and communally, into the world.
Here we are.
Here Christ is.
Here comes a new dawn.
So what’s ahead for ICN in 2026?
Last summer, I wrote of our intention to initiate a gathering of ICN around Epiphany that would focus on Divine Vocation. In the prototyping work of those who responded “Yes” to that call, and in the ongoing discernment and attunement from our WeCreating Divine Vocation team (Beth Biery, Allen Bourque, Robert Martin, Connie Wilson), we have come to recognize that this is not an endeavor that culminates in a large gathering—at least not yet.
Rather, now, here on Epiphany 2026, at the seven-year mark of ICN, we come not to a summit, but to a commencement of something far bigger. Across the threshold, into this new stage of ICN, where we will be initializing and WeCreating many new endeavors, gatherings, and processes to enter more fully in our personal and communal expressions of divine vocation. Our Christophany manifestations of divine/human/material incarnation as a community and as individuals.
Again, you are not simply the receivers of these emerging expressions and enactions. You too are the WeCreators of what is to come!
We invite you to step into this calling more and more. Discerning your commitments and engagements with wisdom and clarity—your “Christ Commissioning”—which we will invite more actively together in community to come as well, particularly in the upcoming Lenten season.
Over the next six weeks, through Epiphanytide, we’ll be concluding our revisiting and deepening of the WeCreating series, engaging in the processes of Beckoning, Becoming, and Being with Divine Inspiration and Divine Vocation.
I’m so grateful to share in this journey and process with you all. And I’m immensely excited and inspired to see what will emerge in our WeCreating over the next seven years—and more!
In wholeness and love,
Luke Healy
