This year, Every Child Matters is growing from a single day to a full week of Truth and Reconciliation programming. About this event This year, we’re proud to announce that Every Child Matters is growing from a single day to a full week of Truth and Reconciliation programming. Last year’s unprecedented online event was attended …
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May She Flourish: Research-Based Tools for Women in Ministry Webinar Series
This webinar series of conversations for women in ministry is grounded in research from Wellbeing at Work on the experience of women clergy. About this event This webinar series of conversations for women in ministry is grounded in research from Wellbeing at Work on the experience of women clergy. Manuela Casti Yeagley, principal investigator of …
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Connecting with Indigenous Knowledge
The Venerable Val Kerr and Janice Whiteley 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 …
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Practicing the Inner Work of Racial Justice
Whether confronting the legacy of historical white supremacy or exploring the effects of wage and wealth inequality, we are challenged to explore our social identities and related attachments in this time. And we are invited to turn toward and take up our part of the work of minimizing socially created surplus suffering. How might our …
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Master Class on Canadian Indigenous Realities and the Canadian Church with Ray Aldred
Course Description The Residential School tragedy highlights the need for senior church leaders to examine the Church’s prevailing Indigenous perspectives and practices. This course aims at helping build a healthy respect for Indigenous identity as “other”, neither vilifying or idealizing, but seeking to become an ally. Throughout this six-class course, you’ll explore the topics of …
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2021 Convocation and Pastors’ School
The annual Convocation & Pastors’ School is a conference that offers lectures, worship, and seminars for Christian leaders of all traditions. Led by scholars and practitioners from Duke University and beyond, this event is a cooperative endeavor with the North Carolina and Western North Carolina Conferences of the United Methodist Church, The Duke Endowment, and …
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Study by Independent Students
Looking to explore theological education but not ready to commit to a degree? Start here! The college welcomes applications from independent students who wish to take individual courses, whether as part of their discernment for ministry, as continuing education credit, or to further their interest in Christianity. Credit earned as an independent student may be …
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Exploring how Saints of the Church reflect our Baptismal Covenant
In our Creeds, we profess belief in “the communion of Saints”. This great cloud of witnesses represents the spectrum of humanity. One thing they all have in common is a deep desire to reflect the love of Christ themselves into the world in which they lived. This 5-week course will explore the lives of selected …
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Christian Left Conference: Rethinking the Christian Left from the Belly of Empire: Charting New Paths Beyond Colonization
What does it mean to speak of a Christian Left? Who is included under the label the Christian Left? In the last decades, the Christian left has been undergoing enormous reconfiguration: new actors, issues and concerns have uncovered the colonial underbelly of the Christian Left. From the Suffrage movements through to the Social Gospel, and …
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Faithful Anti-Racism in a Global Context
This course will survey the global influences and far-reaching impact of American Christian racism. We will discuss the global phenomenon of white dominant evangelicalism, the currency of colorism, the essential components of caste systems, and the complicity and strengths of Christianity in racialization and anti-racism. INSTRUCTED BY: Christina Edmondson