A full-day virtual gathering to advance For the Love of Creation’s action on climate justice. The 2021 Fall Symposium will mark a key moment in the For the Love of Creation journey, in Canada’s climate plan, and in global climate action as we engage with COP 26 (November 2021). It is intended to bring together …
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Upcoming Continuing Education Opportunities at Yale Divinity School
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A Journey from Creation to Resurrection
An 8-week virtual pilgrimage on Thursday evenings in March and April 2022 The narrative arc of our Christian journey begins at the moment of creation and comes to its climax with the Resurrection of Jesus. The story continues from there with the post-resurrection narratives of Jesus consoling, healing, and commissioning the disciples to be apostles …
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Reawakening the Oral Tradition of the Bible
Biblical Storytelling belongs to all God’s people. The Bible came out of a storytelling culture and we want to re-awaken the power and the beauty of that living voice. In this retreat we will uncover the hidden pattern found in every biblical story, a pattern placed there to guide the ancient storytellers. We will use …
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Toward Greener Faith: An Ecological Vision for Our Time
How might we probe more deeply, at this historical moment, how love and care for the earth can be understood as central to our Christian faith and practice? Overview: Though it is common in church circles to hear earth care and sustainable living extolled in broad terms, as moral virtues honored as well by nonbelievers, we …
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Journaling for Personal Growth
(Also available: Introduction to Journaling November 18, 2021: 7:00pm-8:30pm, online, $57) Please note this is an Online Event that will be taking place over Zoom. Program Information: Journaling is a practice open to ANYONE. It’s how people have recorded their lives, loves, journeys, struggles and victories. It can be a vehicle for making notes about …
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Thin Places: Openings to the Sacred–Retreat
There are times in our lives when the veil seems to lift and we know the holy oneness of heaven and Earth. In these thin places, we become lost in wonder and held in Love. The Holy Isle of Iona, Scotland is often referred to as such a place, and on this day we will …
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Abundance in the Midst of Challenge–Retreat
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. …
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A Poet, A Priest–Retreat
October 29-31, 2021 with the Rev. Spencer Reece In this retreat, the Episcopal priest and poet Rev. Spencer Reece discusses his spiritual and literary journey. He will connect literature to the Bible, uniting art and church in a way our culture has moved away from. The Rev. Reece will explore how poetry, AA, and Al-Anon led …
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The Questions God Asks–Retreat
October 8-10, 2021 with Joseph Rose, Executive Director of Visitor Experience at Trinity Retreat Center and an Episcopal seminarian at Yale Divinity School, and Mary Davenport, a Hebrew Bible scholar and program assistant at the retreat center. “Where are you?” “Do you have reason to be angry?” “Where have you come from, and where are …
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