Be inspired! Be energized! Grow as a story-teller and a writer! Do you have stories that you want to tell? Are you an aspiring writer who wants to polish your skills? Are you an accomplished writer who wants to find your muse? Do you sense a leading to use words to create social change? Story …
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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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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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LIVING FULLY: BEFRIENDING YOUR SHADOW
A weekend retreat at Mount Carmel The shadow consists of everything (beliefs, attitudes, emotions and behaviours) which we drove back into our unconscious for fear of being rejected by those important to our safety and wellbeing when we were young. Using a gentle psychospiritual framework, Jungian psychology and gospel references, we will explore the hidden …
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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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Programs at Restoring Connections
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Discernment Pathway
Our Discernment Pathway process is holistic, communal and practice oriented. It’s a safe and resource rich environment to ask questions, learn and work out in community how God might be directing you. What to expect? Bi-weeky online learning cohort – we’ll create a community of practice as we discern together Curated experiences, spiritual practices, resources …
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Deepening Spirituality in Our Parishes
Discover varied methods for nurturing the spirituality of congregations. About this event This event is brought to you by the department of Lifelong Learning at Virginia Theological Seminary This online cohort will meet on four consecutive Thursday afternoons (Oct 7 – Oct 28) from 3 – 4:30 p.m. eastern. In 1971 Karl Rahner wrote, “The …
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May She Flourish: Research-Based Tools for Women in Ministry Webinar Series
This webinar series of conversations for women in ministry is grounded in research from Wellbeing at Work on the experience of women clergy. About this event This webinar series of conversations for women in ministry is grounded in research from Wellbeing at Work on the experience of women clergy. Manuela Casti Yeagley, principal investigator of …
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Developing a Contemplative Prayer Life: A Twelve-Step Approach
The Reverend Canon Ian Mobsby One of the great challenges for all those involved in new forms of ministry, mission, fresh expressions of church, and forming missional communities is that it can be utterly exhausting. Missioners as activists are expected to make things happen often in very difficult contexts with scarce resources. Working in such …
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