Through prayer, creativity, and reflection participants will be encouraged to be innovative partners on the creative edge of where the Spirit of God is recreating the church and what it means to be a “Missional Church” while keeping the history of Indigenous Peoples in mind. The history of Indigenous Peoples is one important element of …
View course details “Connecting with Indigenous Knowledge”
In these unprecedented times, God continues to lead us in new challenges where the precedented ways of leadership are not always helpful. Yet, this changed and ever-changing world remains the object of God’s missional intentions. God’s Spirit continues to give us gifts for these ventures of faith. We can join in God’s mission with confidence …
View course details “Adaptive Leadership in Anxious Times: Called to Lead When You Don’t Know Where You Are Going”
How do we connect God’s mission, and therefore the mission of the church, with the culture in which we live and speak in ways that help people make sense of their lives and their purpose through the lens of the Gospel? How can our words as preachers help others follow Jesus’ Way of Love more …
View course details “Missional Preaching”
We do not have to look far to find churches that are no longer the thriving congregations they once were. This can cause us great heartache. We can feel discouraged by the declining church engagement we see around us, and many of us long to find those ways to “fix” what seems to be an …
View course details “The Persistent Parish: Pursuing Missional Movement in Cozy Congregations”
This course introduces students to Paul the Apostle as a person, as a Christ-believer, as apostle-preacher-pastor-missionary, to the disputed and undisputed Pauline letter corpus in the New Testament, to major themes of Paul’s theologies, and to Paul’s role in the formation of early Christianity. These studies will be situated in the social, cultural, and theological …
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When we encounter our own lives and the lives of others, several questions about responsibility and requirement are raised. Such questions often demand not only careful discernment but also decisive action. Yet many often wonder whether certain actions are right or wrong, just or unjust, good or evil. Others are restrained from action, debilitated by …
View course details “Christian Ethics, ETH500”
This course will examine the history of Christian thought from the beginnings of the Common Era until the high middle ages, with special attention to the formative centuries of the patristic period. The course is designed to be primarily a history of Christian thought to enable future ministers and other Christian leaders to know the …
View course details “Ancient and Medieval Christianity, HIS500”
This course will explore the history of Christian churches in Canada and the United States. The written histories of the churches will be studied in dialogue with the social context of such histories and the reflections of both church and context in popular culture. The course will examine not only the writings and work of …
View course details “North American Church History, HIS600”
Quiet Day Zoom Event This is holy ground, the wisdom offered to us in the second half of life. Join us for a Quiet Day as we reflect on the themes of Home, God-at-home with us and the holy ground of growing older, with reflections on Moses and the burning bush and the start of …
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Quiet Day Zoom Event We have many losses sorrows, regrets and changes in our lives. We know the presence of grief after the death of a loved one. Do we give ourselves time to be with our grief? Do we even consider making a home for grief? We might not even allow ourselves to grieve …
View course details “Deepest Winter Work: Caring for Grief”
