Registration is now open for the Center for Anglican Learning and Leadership’s Winter 2022 session. CALL offers a selection of seven-week online continuing education courses for laypeople and clergy. The Winter 2022 session runs January 17 to March 7. Ethics in the Anglican tradition draws on a rich history of discourse as we strive to …
View course details “Facing Choices: Ethics in the Anglican Tradition”

Registration is now open for the Center for Anglican Learning and Leadership’s Winter 2022 session. CALL offers a selection of seven-week online continuing education courses for laypeople and clergy. The Winter 2022 session runs January 17 to March 7. This course will explore the history of Christianity by focusing on snapshots of it in different …
View course details “Church History: Wisdom for Mission”

(12-Week Online Course) As we emerge into a new context of living with COVID, the Forum for Intercultural Leadership and Learning is able to again offer the “Engage Difference! Deepening Understanding for Intercultural Leadership and Learning” program. Please note: Course instruction will be in English only.The course will be offered as an on-line program synchronous …
View course details “Engage Difference! Deepening Understanding for Intercultural Ministry”

Music often has a central place in Christian worship, whether in the form of guitar by the campfire, pipe organ and choir, rhythmic drumming, acapella congregational singing, gentle piano accompaniment, chant, or amplified band, among many other possibilities. This course explores a diversity of expressions of music in worship from theological, historical, and practical perspectives. …
View course details “Theologies and Practices of Music in Christian Worship”

In ministry with children, youth, and their family we create space for spiritual conversations.  Families seek support from ministers and congregational leaders on how to talk about God, death, and other existential questions such as, “Who am I?” and “What am I meant to be doing in my life?” with the children and youth in …
View course details “Spiritual Conversations: Pastoral Ministry with Children, Youth and Families”

New Monasticism might sound strange to those of us within the church because it conjures up images of people being overly pious and wearing medieval clothing. It does, however, very accurately describe when a community comes together intentionally to commit to a rhythm of daily life, to pray and meditate contemplatively, to be radically shaped …
View course details “Introduction to a Missional New Monasticism”

In these unprecedented times, God continues to lead us in new challenges where the precedented ways of leadership are not always helpful. Yet, this changed and ever-changing world remains the object of God’s missional intentions. God’s Spirit continues to give us gifts for these ventures of faith. We can join in God’s mission with confidence …
View course details “Adaptive Leadership in Anxious Times: Called to Lead When You Don’t Know Where You Are Going”

How do we connect God’s mission, and therefore the mission of the church, with the culture in which we live and speak in ways that help people make sense of their lives and their purpose through the lens of the Gospel? How can our words as preachers help others follow Jesus’ Way of Love more …
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We do not have to look far to find churches that are no longer the thriving congregations they once were. This can cause us great heartache. We can feel discouraged by the declining church engagement we see around us, and many of us long to find those ways to “fix” what seems to be an …
View course details “The Persistent Parish: Pursuing Missional Movement in Cozy Congregations”

When we encounter our own lives and the lives of others, several questions about responsibility and requirement are raised. Such questions often demand not only careful discernment but also decisive action. Yet many often wonder whether certain actions are right or wrong, just or unjust, good or evil. Others are restrained from action, debilitated by …
View course details “Christian Ethics, ETH500”