VST Current Course Listings

Many of the courses in this list are both online and in-person. Unfortunately, there is not a simple way to list all of the online courses.  

Intersections: a Dialogue Series on Racism

This is our fourth offering of this highly popular anti-racism series. Capacity is limited to 30ppl/session. Register early. This session will run online on Wednesdays, from 7pm-9pm, from September 28 to November 9, 2022. Intersections: A Dialogue Series is an opportunity to engage with Challenging Racist ‘British Columbia’: 150 Years and Counting (CRBC). Produced as part of the …
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Indigenous Women in Leadership

Applications for this course are open to First Nations (status or non-status), Métis, and Inuit participants residing in Canada only.  Click here to apply  Click here for downloadable PDF Indigenous women traditionally held places of honour, respect, and leadership within their families and communities as our advisors and caretakers of life, lands, and …
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Forum for Intercultural Leadership and Learning (Ongoing Groups)

The Forum for Intercultural Leadership and Learning is a network, maybe even a movement, not a program agency. Our primary work is connecting the many people across Canada in intercultural ministry and through the Canadian Churches. Together we support each other and learn from each other as we live into God’s vision of “Shalom,” “Beloved …
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Christian Left Conference 2022

Creation, Land, and Indigeneity: Resistance on Turtle Island and Beyond Register here. Emmanuel College’s Centre for Religion and Its Contexts, Trinity–St. Paul’s United Church, the Centre for Philosophy, Religion and Social Ethics of The Institute for Christian Studies and Broadview Magazine are hosting the third Christian Left Conference. This year’s theme is “Creation, Land, and …
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Seeking Transformation–A Retreat for Christians Settlers

This embodied retreat provides an opportunity for Christian Settlers to confront the longstanding history of European Christians/Christianity harming Indigenous peoples, exemplified in Church participation in Residential Schools, and then to envision and work towards a different future. The retreat demonstrates that the founding of Residential Schools and settler colonialism itself exposed the colonization of our …
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Indigenous Women in Leadership

Online Delivery Applications for this course are open to First Nations, Métis, and Inuit participants residing in Canada only.  Click here to apply  Click here for downloadable PDF Indigenous women traditionally held places of honour, respect, and leadership within their families and communities as our advisors and caretakers of life, lands, and resources. …
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Preaching

Preaching is a course on biblical interpretation and preaching. We study and preach on the readings from the Revised Common Lectionary from an Indigenous perspective. Each student will be assigned Gospel readings from the lectionary which they will study using the primary/secondary source material. Students will preach sermons in an Indigenous context, one extemporaneously. Preaching …
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