This course focuses on practical and theological foundations for engaging authentically and meaningfully with communities where life experiences, identities, and/or demographic characteristics reveal a social divide that can preclude others (and ourselves) from recognizing their full humanity.  Readings and other course content integrate literature from social science, practical theology, and personal narratives of experience.  The …
View course details “Pastoral Care with Marginalized Communities”

Develop new skills to help your faith-inspired organizations and churches navigate, design, and implement transformative change. Church and organizational leaders directly face the opportunities and challenges of their neighbourhoods, towns, and cities in Canada, the United States, and around the world. Learn to employ tools and practices to strengthen your organizational effectiveness, community resilience, and …
View course details “Certificate in Faith-Based Community Development”

Relevant talks for faith-based leaders Lessons On Leadership: ICE provides opportunities for organizational and church leaders to learn from experts, reflect on their current context, and plan to address significant community and organizational issues. For the program’s inaugural year, topics include: “Fundraising in Economic Uncertainty” and “Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Faith-Based Organizations.” These events …
View course details “Lessons on Leadership (2022-2023)”

Flexion connects faith-inspired leaders across Canada, the USA, and the globe to discuss and respond to the risks and opportunities facing their organizations. Participants are assigned two topical articles prior to each session and come prepared to discuss them within a cohort of 10-20 other leaders. Flexion groups are divided into two tracks: one for participants …
View course details “Flexion: Leadership Discussion Groups (2022-2023)”

This class  will provide students with an introduction to intersectionality as a tool for social analysis and critical theological reflection, as a way to inform liberative praxis in various ministry and community contexts. We will engage questions and discussions of race, class, gender, and sexuality as they are treated theologically, emphasizing works from U.S. scholars …
View course details “Theology, Justice & Intersectionality”

The Canadian Ecumenical Anti-Racism Network (CEARN) of the Canadian Council of Churches invites you to two days of ecumenical support and engagement in anti-racism in and through the churches. The immensity of the racism across the country that has risen up and become bolder has affected Canadian churches and its members. How are churches responding …
View course details “Sharing, Solidarity and Action: Racial Justice and the Canadian Churches (An online gathering)”

The Forum for Intercultural Leadership and Learning is a network, maybe even a movement, not a program agency. Our primary work is connecting the many people across Canada in intercultural ministry and through the Canadian Churches. Together we support each other and learn from each other as we live into God’s vision of “Shalom,” “Beloved …
View course details “Forum for Intercultural Leadership and Learning (Ongoing Groups)”

This embodied retreat provides an opportunity for Christian Settlers to confront the longstanding history of European Christians/Christianity harming Indigenous peoples, exemplified in Church participation in Residential Schools, and then to envision and work towards a different future. The retreat demonstrates that the founding of Residential Schools and settler colonialism itself exposed the colonization of our …
View course details “Seeking Transformation–A Retreat for Christians Settlers”

Facilitator(s): Betty Pries and Cayla Charles Recognizing that our social structures and personal biases can get in the way of commitment to respecting our colleagues and community members, this interactive workshop will engage themes of prejudice, power, and privilege in a manner that honours all voices in the room while also challenging the biases and …
View course details “Transforming Power, Prejudice and Privilege”

Civil discourse is a critical part of engaging in our civic life together, as it can help us to bridge partisan political divides, learn from one another, and create better solutions to the problems in our communities. But what is civil discourse? Is it different from civility? Based on the online class created by The …
View course details “Make Me an Instrument of Peace: Civil Discourse Training”