This link should list all of the courses currently scheduled at the College. Approximately half of them appear to be available online as of April, 2022.
Since the last General Convention the Department of Faith Formation staff of The Episcopal Church have been convening a working group to address the Suicide Prevention initiative named and funded in resolution GC#2018-C014. We are now on the second wave of recruiting training participants as we enter a new year in the midst of pandemic. …
View course details “START: Suicide Intervention Training”
Faced with an opportunity to tell an uncomfortable truth, a lot of us feel the need to “clean it up” before sharing. When that happens, we end up creating edited, sanitized versions of our stories that ultimately leave us feeling cut off from our community. More often than not, guilt and shame are the things …
View course details “Guilt, Shame, and Storytelling”
Led by Fr Charlie Annis, nCR “His name is John” (Luke 1.63) — Who is John the Baptist, the Forerunner, the Friend of the Bridegroom? What is his Advent message to us today and what does he have to teach us as about living the Christian life as we await Christ’s Second Advent?
Led by Br Patrick Souter CR Praising God in Difficult Times Advent Meditations on hope in our troubled world, informed by the vision of Pope Francis in his Encyclical Laudate Si’, with insights from the poetry of R.S. Thomas, into how we can still imagine God in a world where the Divine can seem absent. …
View course details “Lay Advent Retreat with the Community of the Resurrection, UK”
Toward a Just Recovery: Global Systems in Transition The 2021 Global Environmental Justice Conference at the Yale School of the Environment will focus on a just green recovery. As we emerge from the pandemic into the reality of climate disruption, it is clear that restarting the economy cannot mean a return to the status quo. …
View course details “2021 Global Environmental Justice Conference”
A small group leader is not a teacher, but rather holds a sacred space for respectful conversation, shared learnings, and deepening faith. The author of Gather Us In: Leading Transformational Small Groups, Dr. Angela Schaffner, explores how to become an effective leader who guides a group through change to belonging and maturity.
(Two half days online – one full day credit equivalent) Instructor: Marg Van Herk Paradis (The URL link for this course seems to take one to an introductory course for the Working Genius tool, but if you scroll down you can find the second course). During these unprecedented times, how can we minister from a …
View course details “Building Leadership Resilience for Ministry : Applying “The Working Genius””
All courses available in the Fall of 2021 should be listed on the indicated web page.
The Center of Addiction & Faith will hold its third Addiction & Faith Conference October 7-9, 2021 in Bloomington, Minn., to give faith communities tools for responding to the addiction crisis. Registration is open for in-person and virtual attendance at www.addictionandfaithconference.com. The Center grew out of the Fellowship of Recovering Lutheran Clergy. Founder Ed Treat was an …
View course details “Addiction & Faith Conference”