Friday, May 12 – Sunday, May 14, 2017 Led by Br. Don Bisson, FMS These two popular authors of spirituality and psychology both were obsessed with the discovery and movements towards the True Self. Similarities and differences between their writings may provide a fuller expression of this search. Biographical material of both men will …
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CALL Online Winter 2017 English Spirituality and Mysticism This course will cover the history of Christian Spirituality in the British Isles prior to the Protestant Reformation, including Celtic spirituality, Romano-British Christianity, Anglo-Saxon spirituality, and medieval English mysticism. Students will practice and reflect upon the spiritual disciplines described and prescribed in primary texts (The Cloud of …
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Faith formation for all God’s people in an era of change June 12, 2017 – June 16, 2017 Every day we experience the reality that we are living, not only in an era of change, but in a change of eras. We need a new vision of forming faith—an ecosystem of intergenerational relationships including faith …
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  Tuesday, March 21 – Friday, March 24, 2017 Led by Christine Hales This master class will provide an in-depth experience of painting in egg tempera for those who have previous icon writing experience. You will learn the Byzantine method of using egg tempera and gold leaf gilding on gessoed panels to paint an icon. …
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Tuesday, January 31 – Friday, February 3, 2017 Led by Br. Will Owen You seduced me, O Lord, and I was seduced.   – Jer. 20:7 The Christian mystics often write of a powerful longing that leads them to abandon all in their search for Christ, their soul’s true lover. Drawing on the Song of Songs, we …
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Tuesday, January 24 – Friday, January 27, 2017 Led by Br. Reinaldo Martinez-Cubero St. Athanasius of Alexandria believed that singing is essentially a spiritual discipline, and an important practice in spiritual formation. Singing allows us to use the core elements out of which the world came into being and through which it is sustained: breath, …
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  By Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Monday, October 31 – Sunday, November 20 You are welcome to sign up for this e-course any time before the last day, November 20. After you do, you will find in your account an archive of the sessions covered so far, and you can read them online or …
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  In God’s Image: An Old Testament View of Clay and Dust   Spiritual Formation Elective   March 19-22, 2017    Steven Tuell and Karen Bowden Cooper

  Thomas Merton    A Spiritual Formation Elective   June 24-27, 2017    L. Roger Owens

  Brew Like a Monk: Spiritual Formation as Fermentation   A Spiritual Formation Elective /   September 17-20, 2017   B.J. Woodworth