Facilitator: Marg Van Herk-Paradis or Betty Pries This highly interactive and educational workshop invites you to consider the building blocks that create conflict and those that assist or detract in conflict’s resolution. This four-morning workshop includes reflection, conversation, and exercises as conflicts are studied and models for addressing conflicts are considered. Significant time will be …
View course details “Understanding Conflict Foundations–ONLINE”
An online course offered by Calvin Theological Seminary and taught by Christina Edmondson. Date: Monday, May 3 – Friday, May 28, 2021 Location: online event Course Description Calvin Seminary offers this short-term, online course designed to support your learning and ministry needs amidst the ongoing pandemic. In this course, you’ll gain practical knowledge about …
View course details “Faithful Anti-Racism in a Time of Pandemic – May 2021”
Audre Lorde said, “When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” In the Hebrew and Christian Bible, many women – sometimes nameless and often forgotten – use their strength to challenge systems and claim justice. Whether …
View course details “Fierce Biblical Women Speak Power Today”
This workshop, uses the two lenses of conflict drivers and conflict paradoxes, and considers seemingly intractable conflicts and their transformation. Questions for consideration include the nature of intractability, de-escalation strategies, transforming intractable conflicts and engaging emotions. This workshop builds on Understanding Conflict: Foundations. It is highly interactive, insightful, engaging and critical for all those who wish …
View course details “Understanding Conflict Advanced”
Thanks to a generous gift from Tandean Rustandy (MBA ’07) the Divinity School has in recent years begun to explore the emerging field of Global Christianity. This coming spring the Divinity School will continue its efforts by launching the Rustandy Global Christianity Distinguished Speaker Series. This lecture series, facilitated through the Martin Marty Center, will …
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An Eastertide Series with Archbishop David and Archbishop Mark MacDonald April 19: Creation and the Fall (the human offence) and its effects April 26: God’s answer in Christ, His Atonement, and the effects of the Resurrection May 3: The new life and a different perspective: the offender, not just the offended, seeks reconciliation May 10: …
View course details “HOW SHALL WE FORGIVE? Re-discovering The Way Through”
What does it mean to lead during a time of religious, sociocultural, and environmental upheaval? What can churches do differently to better reflect and nurture gospel values and God’s dream of a just, reconciled, Spirit-filled world? This course in missional leadership will ask these and related questions. We will explore concepts and experience practices of …
View course details “Changing Church: Mission, Leadership, & Beloved Community”
Gerald May Seminar—Re-Envisioned Overview The Gerald May Seminar will be held on Zoom this year, live and interactive with Michael Battle. The Friday night talk will include a time for interaction at the end. Saturday will be a retreat, with time for silence, guided meditations, sharing in pairs and small groups. “Purgation: Beginning the Journey …
View course details “Reconciliation as Christian Mysticism—with Michael Battle”
How many times have you sung the words “I was blind but now I see?” If you’re like us, probably more times than you can remember, much less count. Have you ever stopped to think, though, “but now what?” What good is sight if it doesn’t give us vision? A vision for what’s really going …
View course details ““Spit and Mud: The Messy Miracle of Sight” (The Messy Miracle of Seeing Christian Racism)”
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