Citizens have the right and responsibility to hold state actors and other power holders (e.g., corporations, NGOs) accountable for decisions and actions that affect their lives. Indeed, the participation of active citizens is key to ensuring good governance, which directly affects people on a daily basis (i.e., by influencing access to health care, education, housing, …
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Applications for this course are open to First Nations, Métis, and Inuit participants residing in Canada only.  This five-week online course will introduce you to Indigenous principles and practices for community work that build upon strengths and assets for action. We offer you an open and safe space to learn from one another’s lived experiences …
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This course is a probing and critical inquiry into the theology and practice of White Supremacy within American Christianity. We will explore the roots of that theology and practice in Christian history and reckon squarely with the legacy of the perspective of what Martin King, Jr. called the “White Moderate,” which is so prominent within …
View course details “White Too Long: Confronting the Theology and Practice of White Supremacy”

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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For a comprehensive list of the competencies developed in our Priest Track curriculum, click here. Curriculum – Priest Track One of the special gifts of the Stevenson School is its ability to support you in the path towards priesthood without assuming that you are going to leave full-time employment or relocate to a traditional seminary.  …
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Preaching After the Storm Preachers, we are confronting a collective trauma and we have yet to realize fully its global, national, ecclesial, and individual effects. There’s no going back to life before the storm. So what does our preaching need to be and do going forward? If COVID-19 has taught us anything homiletically, it’s that …
View course details “Festival of Homiletics 2022: After the Storm: Preaching and Trauma”

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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KAIROS Atlantic presents its virtual regional gathering on Friday evening and Saturday, November 26 and 27. The gathering is entitled, Living Treaties: How we live into the Treaties and how Treaties live in us. Join us to hear provocative guest speakers and consider how our own lives are part of Treaty. Everyone welcome! More details to come. Contact [email protected] if you have questions.  

KAIROS Prairies North invites you to its annual gathering on November 20, Unpacking Settler Colonialism and Relationship to Land and Water. Friends, teachers, and co-conspirators Stan MacKay and Bob Haverluck will work with teachings and art to help us on the long inner and outer journeys of decolonizing and challenging settler colonialism. Elder Stan is from Fisher River Cree Nation …
View course details “Kairos Fall 2021 Regional Gathering–Prairies North”