“Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in minds. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.” Patrick Rothfuss Our words are important. They are how we communicate with others and with ourselves. They form our narratives which become our lives. Let’s connect to …
View course details “Creative Journaling: What’s in a word?”

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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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We live in an image-saturated society—“an empire of signs”—in which discerning the difference between truth and illusion, fantasy and reality, is becoming an ever more difficult task. As communications media and powerful computer technologies converge, and invade and define ever greater areas of daily life, there are those who would argue that it’s a hopeless, …
View course details “Image and Word: Theological Reflections on Media and Culture”

Is there such a thing as a Christian imagination? Is it just a private matter or does it have a public role? In what ways is it shaped by biblical and theological teaching? How does it relate to our experience of reality – a world of beauty and brokenness, of glory and degradation? And is …
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Join the annual Calvin Symposium on Worship for worship and learning together around topics connected to Christian public worship. This ecumenical conference will   gather together worshipers from across Canada, the US, and beyond  bring together people from a variety of roles in worship and leadership, including pastors, worship planners and leaders, musicians, scholars, students, …
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An online arts and spirituality series with Jesse White Do you love journaling and want to integrate visual art with your words? We will invite Spirit’s guidance as we learn arts techniques to complement our written words. This fun and exploratory experience is meant to meet you where you are with regards to journaling and …
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Join Artists Pippa Dean-Veerman & Alison Beaumont for an immersive and rejuvenating retreat. Pippa & Alison are excited to be offering their first retreat at The Sorrento Centre, in Sorrento BC. This beautiful 24 acre site, will be the home of an experience providing nourishment for your soul. We will dive deeply into connecting with …
View course details “Me to We Retreat: A Co-Creation Art Retreat–Visioning Together With The Earth”

Can art prepare Christians to face death with hope? In this course, we will identify key works of art and theological texts that depict suffering and death, exploring how they grapple with these realities, and come to appreciate how art may spiritually form us towards Christian hope. Artistic reflections will centre on paintings, medieval woodcuts, …
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Presenter:  Fr. Craig E. Morrison, O.Carm. Born into poverty in Belarus, Marc Chagall endured a most turbulent time with the violent collapse of czarist Russia and two world wars.  In 1941, he and his wife, Bella, fled for their lives to New York escaping the Shoah while carrying with them the White Crucifixion (a Chagall …
View course details “Marc Chagall Paints the Bible”