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: Missional Practices and/for Beloved Community”

Christian practices constitute the Christian life. Communal practices facilitate the integration of personal, spiritual, academic, and global formation into coherent Christian discipleship through reflection, relationships, and practices. This integrative course explores the identity and practices of Christian community as a people called, gathered, and sent by God. Together, professor and students will study and enact …
View course details “Spiritual Practices in the Company of Others”

How are the choices we make about how to teach connected to the faith that frames our actions? It’s easy to focus mainly on whether we say true things in our teaching. Yet the New Testament speaks of truth as embodied—as residing in actions and not just in words. We will therefore explore how Christian …
View course details “Everyday Christian Teaching: How Faith Shapes Pedagogy”

From climate change to economic inequality, from human migration to major wars, from mental health to housing, the world seems to be shaped by crises—so much so that some commentators have started to use the word “polycrisis” to describe this moment in human history. At the same time, the church is undergoing profound change as …
View course details “Christianity in a Crisis-Shaped World”

This course is designed for students interested in the development of the missional theology conversation in North America, attending to both significant themes and the key theologians who shaped the discourse over the last several decades. The missional church movement involves a reimaging of ecclesiology in light of a robust missiology, rooted in divine agency …
View course details “Missional Theology in a Post-Christendom World”

The Canadian church has seen its fair share of shifts and trends in recent years…. … you may be familiar with the term “deconstruction,” or perhaps you or someone you love has gone through a season of questioning, spiritual peril or even a total loss of the Christian faith. The implications of a faith unmooring …
View course details “Blessed are the Undone: Leading in the era of quiet deconstruction”

In the emerging landscape of mission, refugees, migrants, and the church in the Global South traditionally viewed as recipients of mission goods and services have become a major source of innovation and leadership in the founding of new worshiping communities, the provision of community services, and the work of advocacy for justice around the world. …
View course details “World Mission Institute Conference 2024”

An Evangelist is a lay person who presents the good news of Jesus Christ in such a way that people are led to receive Christ as savior and follow Christ as Lord in the fellowship of the Church. This 14-week Lay Evangelism Training is designed to equip lay Episcopalians to know and share this good news through lectures, …
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“Shaping an immigrant congregation to be healthy and missional” is what this course is about. This course discusses how to help immigrant churches move out of their ethnic enclaves and become effective agents for the gospel in a pluralistic world. In this course, we will discuss the task of navigating immigrant church members to be …
View course details “Becoming a Missional Immigrant Congregation”

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