Loosening the Tongue: The Practice of Preaching without Notes with Melissa Skelton

July 9-13, 2018 – Week One Loosening the Tongue: The Practice of Preaching without Notes with Melissa Skelton   In this 5-day course, preachers will preach 5 short sermons composed and prepared and preached in class, receiving feedback on: listeners’ experience that the sermon speaks to them, the sermon’s ability to evoke a “metanoia experience”, …
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Brilliance and Blindspots: C.S. Lewis’s Theology of Love with Jason Lepojarvi

July 9-13, 2018 – Week One Brilliance and Blindspots: C.S. Lewis’s Theology of Love with Jason Lepojarvi     The “four” loves Lewis famously distinguished were affection, friendship, eros, and charity or agape. Deceptions and distortions can render the first three dangerous without character and grace. But are there really “four” loves? Is there really such …
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Prophetic Presence: What’s God and the Church’s Role in a Time of Profound Change?

July 9-13, 2018 – Week One   Prophetic Presence: What’s God and the Church’s Role in a Time of Profound Change? with Philip Clayton   For centuries Christians have affirmed the providence of God, the unique value of Jesus’ life and teachings, and the special status of the church. What does it mean to affirm …
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Benedictine Spirituality and the Foundations of the New Monasticism

Wycliffe College Summer 2018 Benedictine Spirituality and the Foundations of the New Monasticism Monday – Friday, June 25 – 29, 2018 St. Benedict’s “Little Rule,” written in the sixth century, is one of the primary sources of Anglican spirituality, liturgy and ecclesiology and has influenced many other denominations as well. Since the mid-twentieth century it …
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( Re)Planting Missional Churches: The Theological Dimensions Of Why

  April 12-14, 2018 Overview: The American scene of the Christian church is enormously complex. Most neighborhoods have no shortage of church options, yet statistics point to a steady decline of membership in established churches. For sale signs mark vacant church buildings. Meanwhile, radically untraditional megachurches and immigrant congregations experience burgeoning growth. In this context, …
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Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)

Nov. 8-9, 2018 Congregational Care Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) is for everyone 16 or older – regardless of prior experience – who wants to be able to provide suicide first aid. Shown by major studies to significantly reduce suicidality, the ASIST model teaches effective intervention skills while helping to build suicide prevention networks in the community. …
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Shepherd Of Souls

November 7, 2018 Congregational Care Participants will explore what it means to be a shepherd of souls and how to promote the shepherd of souls ministry in the congregation. This ministry and way of life represent the deeply meaningful, personal, and communal life of befriending brothers and sisters in the faith. It serves the work of discipleship that …
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Milestones Ministry

Nov. 6, 2018 Faith Formation Milestones ministry takes congregational and daily life experiences like baptism, graduation, marriage, retirement, as well as receiving a Bible, beginning confirmation, starting a first job, or becoming a parent or grandparent, and countless other occasions in life to nurture the Christian faith and reach out to others with the love of God in …
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