Online with Barbara Richards Are you facing the uncharted post-career years, wondering what’s next? Many of us who are approaching the third chapter of life feel unsettled, restless, and adrift. We sense the years 55 to 80+ can be some of our best, but we don’t know how to navigate the changes that come with …
View course details “The Possibility of Age: Discover Aging as a Spiritual Path”
Leading churches in today’s shifting context demands a lot from pastors: fresh imagination, sensitivity to the Spirit, and resilience. The Gathering is an annual event for church leaders seeking to lead and nourish their communities in God’s mission. Through worship, prayer, preaching, dialogue, and recreation, we will attend to soul care amidst the beautiful surrounds …
View course details “The Gathering: Journeying Towards Pastoral Health”
Location: This event will take place online-only, via Zoom. Please register on this page, and the Zoom link will be sent to you. Description: Two evening sessions with Russ Daye and Rob Fennell, co-authors of Turning Ourselves Inside Out: Thriving Christian Communities. Join these two pastor-scholars to learn about their research on thriving churches, and …
View course details “Turning Ourselves Inside Out: Late COVID Reflections on Thriving Churches”
This short course is an introduction to the story of the unification of Italy in the mid-nineteenth century, and the central role of the city of Rome and the Papal States. The guided walks follow in the footsteps of Garibaldi, King Victor Emmanuel, Pope Pius IX and an exotic cast of characters that include Charles …
View course details “Rome or Death? In the footsteps of Garibaldi and the Risorgimento, in the age of revolutions”
An online short course introducing cults, or New Religious Movements. This 4-week course is a sociological introduction to cults – or better labeled as new religious movements (NRMs). The class will learn and discuss the definition of religion, church, sect, and NRM. Following this discussion, we will examine the beginning of three mainstream religions: Islam, …
View course details “Cult Classics: An Introduction to New Religious Movements”
How should the white Church’s participation in chattel slavery change what we believe about Holy Communion? The Episcopal Church’s House of Bishops has called white supremacy the most present sin in Western culture today. From Manifest Destiny to owning slaves, from opposing Civil Rights to continuing to hoard wealth from stolen land and stolen people, …
View course details “Holy Eucharist & Transatlantic Slavery”
We invite you to join us in beautiful Montreal from May 16-18!! A conference focused on your encouragement and renewal. Through scriptural teaching, vibrant worship, reflection in the arts, be encouraged and renewed for ministry. Rebekah Eklund Rebekah Eklund is associate professor of theology at Loyola University Maryland, where she teaches Scripture, theology, and ethics. …
View course details “Encouragement Conference — Worship, Scripture, the Arts”
“Take care how you listen.” – The words of Jesus to his disciples, Luke 8 Emmaus is a place, an environment, a culture where spiritual growth occurs. Together we are learning disciplines, habits and rhythms that give honor and time to the consistent, incremental, hidden working of the Holy Spirit. In Emmaus, we are learning …
View course details “Emmaus Certificate in Formational Leadership”
Do you sometimes feel like you are a lump of clay that is just spinning around on a potter’s wheel? Or like a clay jar that is broken and no longer useful? Do you feel the same way when it comes to the church? The Centre for Missional Leadership at St. Andrew’s Hall in Vancouver …
View course details “Treasures in Jars of Clay: A Retreat for Church Leaders”
What would it be like to open your voice from the soles of your feet and the seat of your soul? What gifts does your voice hold for you and for the world? Your voice is the path for your truth to enter the world. Join us to discover new ways to speak, sing and …
View course details “Opening the Voice of Courage: A Circle of Trust® retreat to open Expression, Joy, and Connection”