2023 Festival of Faiths: Sacred Hearts, Sacred Minds: Embodying Love

The 2023 Festival of Faiths will celebrate the power of love to cultivate meaningful connections, strengthen communities and transform lives. Join us for Sacred Hearts, Sacred Minds: Embodying Love, where we will explore contemporary concerns through the lens of faith and tap into our unique capacity for love and compassion. A diverse lineup of spiritual teachers, thought leaders …
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Cult Classics: An Introduction to New Religious Movements

An online short course introducing cults, or New Religious Movements. This 4-week course is a sociological introduction to cults – or better labeled as new religious movements (NRMs). The class will learn and discuss the definition of religion, church, sect, and NRM. Following this discussion, we will examine the beginning of three mainstream religions: Islam, …
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Envisioning Peace Together – An Interfaith Retreat

This interfaith weekend retreat will center around the vision of peace offered in Isaiah’s oracle and imaged in the painting, “The Peaceable Kingdom” by Edward Hicks. It will offer the opportunity to explore spiritual practices that support an awareness of the Divine and transformation of consciousness that can serve peace. Experiential practices, reflection, and sharing …
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In the Beginning: Classic Christian and Jewish Pathways to Understanding the Book of Genesis

“These stories [in the early chapters of Genesis] have provided a foundation for three of the world’s major religions—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Furthermore, arguably, these pages also provide the foundations on which Western civilization as we know it today has been built. Indeed, few questions are more fundamental to human existence than Who am I? …
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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.