(12-Week Online Course) As we emerge into a new context of living with COVID, the Forum for Intercultural Leadership and Learning is able to again offer the “Engage Difference! Deepening Understanding for Intercultural Leadership and Learning” program. Please note: Course instruction will be in English only.The course will be offered as an on-line program synchronous …
View course details “Engage Difference! Deepening Understanding for Intercultural Ministry”
The page in the link should have up to date information on upcoming retreats and options for directed spiritual time. Sometimes we need time away from our busy schedules to relax, pray and reflect. Come take time to refresh and renew oneself with a few quiet days at Mount Carmel. Meeting daily with a spiritual …
View course details “Listing of Upcoming Directed and Private Retreats”
We are the result of the choices that we make. Whether you are facing major changes and decisions or simply wish to examine the decisions you make on a daily basis and the effects on your life, this may be the workshop/retreat for you. Drawing upon the wisdom of Ignatian spirituality and Jungian psychology, …
View course details “DECISION MAKING AND DISCERNMENT Workshop”
A weekend to bid farewell to last year and to create some space for the challenges and blessings waiting in the wings of 2022. Through mini-presentations, group work, prayer and personal reflection, participants will acquire tools for letting go of the old and welcoming the new, with a greater awareness of where they want to …
View course details “Welcoming the New Year–Retreat”
Are you a Lay preacher seeking to get a license for ministry? Or are you just interested in learning more? If so, please join Rev. Steve Bateman, Rev. Br. Jason Caroll O.P. and Rev. Canon James Robinson for this short course to learn the theological foundations for Preaching, as well as instruction on how craft …
View course details “Foundations for Preaching”
Music often has a central place in Christian worship, whether in the form of guitar by the campfire, pipe organ and choir, rhythmic drumming, acapella congregational singing, gentle piano accompaniment, chant, or amplified band, among many other possibilities. This course explores a diversity of expressions of music in worship from theological, historical, and practical perspectives. …
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In ministry with children, youth, and their family we create space for spiritual conversations. Families seek support from ministers and congregational leaders on how to talk about God, death, and other existential questions such as, “Who am I?” and “What am I meant to be doing in my life?” with the children and youth in …
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This course takes students on a journey exploring the great historical moments, movements and famous figures that gave rise to the spirituality we would now define as Anglican. Starting with our present experience and understanding of Anglicanism, we will consider its monastic roots, its public character and the role of the laity, its relationship with …
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This course will look at the psalms and praises of Israel through the lenses of millennia of Jewish and Christian experience in prayer and praise. The psalms are the songbook of Israel, and must be studied in their own historical context. They have unmatched psychological power, attested in John Calvin’s treatment of the Psalms as …
View course details “Psalms in the Christian Imagination”
This course is Part Two of a year-long sequence in interpretation of the Hebrew Bible. In the Fall semester we read the Pentateuch, the Historical Books, and Psalms. In the Spring semester we focus on Prophets and the remaining books of the Writings. The larger goal of the class is to develop a friendship with …
View course details “Introduction to the Hebrew Bible: II”