Be Still and Know: Embracing the Gifts of Contemplative Prayer Friday, January 15 – Sunday, January 17, 2016 Led by Carl McColman Psalm 62 proclaims, “For God alone my soul in silence waits.” Waiting on the Holy One, in silence, is the heart of Christian spirituality. This weekend will introduce you to the centuries old …
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Schedule & Logistics VCP 2016 is scheduled for Jan. 28-30. 2016 Registration Fees: Full Conference – Early Bird: $265 (until Dec. 31) Full Conference – Regular: $295 Thursday & Friday only: $275 Saturday only – Team Workshop: $75 Bring a team from your church Place: St Paul’s Bloor Street, Toronto Local Hotel Suggestions Local Parking Lots & Details
February 1, 2016 Featuring three plenary sessions with William H. Willimon, Professor of the Practice of Christian Ministry at Duke Divinity School: Preaching Cross: Preaching the scandal of a crucified God in a culture that thinks it already knows God. Preaching Resurrection: Preaching the victory of God in a culture of therapeutic Deism. The Joy …
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Stanley Hauerwas Public Lecture Monday, November 30 4:00pm Wycliffe College (5 Hoskin Avenue) Stanley Hauerwas is an American theologian, author, ethicist, and public intellectual. Professor Hauerwas has sought to recover the significance of the virtues for understanding the nature of the Christian life. This search has led him to emphasize the importance of the church, …
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Silence Night, Holy Night: A Retreat for Advent November 27 – December 25, 2015 By Contemplative Outreach, Mary Anne Best, Gail Fitzpatrick-Hopler, Pamela Begeman Friday, November 27 – Friday, December 25 TwitterFacebookLinkPrint Share “During Advent, as we accept the renewed coming of Divine light, we receive encouragement to open to God’s coming in any way …
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A Simple Immediacy: Desert Wisdom for Advent November 28 – December 25, 2015 By Cynthia Bourgeault Saturday, November 28 – Friday, December 25 TwitterFacebookLinkPrint Share The Desert Fathers and Mothers of the fourth and fifth centuries are arguably the first Wisdom School in Christian history. At first in trickles and then in waves, they fled …
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Canadian Foodgrains Bank Inviting Applications for Nicaragua Food Security Learning Tour Canadian Foodgrains Bank is inviting applications for a February 18-March 4, 2016 learning tour to Nicaragua focused on the link between hunger and small-scale farmers. Tour participants will visit Foodgrains Bank projects and learn firsthand about issues surrounding global hunger and the people whose …
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Friday, December 2 – Sunday, December 4, 2016 Led by Diane Millis and Susan Sink $295 We live in a swirl of narratives, both the stories we have been told and the stories we tell ourselves. Advent offers an apt occasion to reflect upon how God is at work in our story. Rather than receiving …
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Thursday, October 13 – Sunday, October 16, 2016 Led by the Rev. Matthew Wright and Ward Bauman $435 This retreat will examine a global shift in spiritual understanding that is resetting contemporary religious experience in a “nondual” or unitive framework, and will specifically explore Christianity as a path of contemplative awakening within this context. We …
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Thursday, September 15—Sunday, September 18, 2016 Led by Ward Bauman and David Harris $395 Minnesota has all the ingredients to make for healthy and abundant living. Let Us Feast is an opportunity to explore not only the simplicity and goodness of the daily feasts of our lives but also the grand celebrations of the …
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