This event is brought to you by the department of Lifelong Learning at Virginia Theological Seminary In this short course, participants will read poetry contemplatively, sometimes writing in response, and explore how the words, music, and images that we encounter in poems can help us respond more deeply to God’s presence in our lives. Poets …
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This course is designed to introduce the student to a variety of Christian Spiritual practices that will enhance his or her spiritual journey and respective ministry. Each week, the student will explore the elements and context of a certain spiritual practice and be invited to participate in it.

This course is designed to help students explore some of the critical theological and personal dynamics of being and becoming persons who are image-bearers, persons-in-relation with the triune God, their fellow human, and creation, persons joyfully participating in God’s mission to the world of people and creation. The overarching goal is to help students in …
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What does your body say to you? Does it want you to know that it is holy? And if so, then how do you tend to your body and discover its wisdom? These are some of the questions that we will explore in this experiential e-workshop. Our guide will be Christine Valters Paintner who is …
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rawn from ancient prayer practices of the Christian contemplative heritage, Centering Prayer is a receptive method of silent prayer in which we experience God’s presence within. This prayer facilitates the movement from more active modes of prayer into resting in God and consenting to God’s presence and action within us. The facilitators, Lynn Langdon and …
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Join leader Patience Robbins as she guides you through the use of lectio divina, walking meditation, the practice of gratitude, and intercessory prayers. Would you like to open more fully to God in your daily life? Do you wish to develop or deepen a consistent spiritual practice? Are you looking to connect with authentic spiritual …
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The link provided here should list all of the upcoming retreats at the Episcopal House of Prayer. Most or all will be in-person retreats in Collegeville, MN.  

Spiritual Practices for Today provides an experiential introduction to classical Christian spiritual disciplines that nurture intimacy with God. Becoming familiar with some of Christianity’s rich spiritual traditions, and through personal experimentation with various classical prayer-forms and disciplines, students will be better equipped to develop a prayerful Rule of Life. Because significant components of this course …
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Preaching and praying the Psalms is a ten-week online class about drawing on the Psalter as a spiritual resource. The course considers the literary shaping of the whole Psalter: its deliberate introduction (Pss 1-2), its internal divisions, its overall arc from lament to praise. The course addresses difficult psalms of imprecation (like Psalm 137), and …
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Our spirituality is who we are, and our spiritual journey is as long as the days of our lives. At the end of our lives, each of us will have spent it on something; something will have consumed us. As christians, we hope to be consumed by christ, or, as the apostle paul states, “to …
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