Climate change is the most pressing global issue of our time. How humans have historically lived, played, and dreamed is changing. The impact of climate change is felt in every issue facing humanity: health, finance, security, migration, water supply, sanitation, food security, agriculture, and gender to name several. Given the integration of climate into every …
View course details “Climate Change Basics for Community Resilience”

This course is open to all self-identifying women It is designed to advance understandings of conflict, security, and peace for women’s leadership in a changing world. In this course, we explicitly emphasize women’s experiences, roles, knowledge, opportunities, and barriers in security, conflict transformation, and peace building –particularly in community and organizational spaces. Using a gender …
View course details “Advancing Women’s Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding for Community Development”

Faith formation most sustainably happens as part of normal family life.  Our most committed families prior to the pandemic were only in parish formation programming once a week, most far less than that.  The challenges of a post-COVID life have caused us to be even more concerned that families may not return to regular gathered …
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Curriculum – Deacon Track Fulfilling all the requirements of the Stevenson School for a certificate does not guarantee your ordination.  Your Bishop and your Commission on Ministry will make final determinations.  However, our curriculum leading to a certificate is an ideal way to prepare you for this ministry. To apply for this certification track, please …
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Listen. Learn. Experiment. Connect. Applications and expressions of interest are welcomed for our missional leadership learning cohort, called The Connectors FOUR. Deadline is midnight Dec. 12th. *Do you sense that God is nudging you to try something new?  *To reach out to people who might never come to Sunday morning worship?  *To be the hands, …
View course details “THE CONNECTORS FOUR: Missional leadership cohort”

A ZOOM Symposium sponsored by the Diocesan Environment Network, Diocese of Nova Scotia and PEI – The DEN. Join us on Thursday, November 18th, 7:00 PM, as we gather to hear our first speaker, Bishop  Sandra. Green Cent$ is about people, liturgical practices, building and site management. It is for all church people – those …
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This event is brought to you by the TryTank Experimental Lab in the department of Lifelong Learning at Virginia Theological Seminary What is the church of the future? Will church—as we know it—even exist? Author and noted futurist Bob Johansen, a distinguished fellow with the Institute for the Future, will join a small audience from around the church to …
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This workshop is being delivered online 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: Building equitable, diverse and inclusive communities and organizations”

November 5-7, 2021 with the Rev. Canon Karen Montagno “Where do we go from here? Chaos or community?” It’s a question the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King posed in the late 1960s to society in a time of seeming chaos, challenge, and change, and it resonates in these times. Explore this question with the Rev. …
View course details “Abundance in the Midst of Challenge–Retreat”