Learning on Purpose: Changing Leadership for a Changing World is the Centre for Christian Studies’ 2-week intensive leadership development module.  It is a practical, holistic, hands-on, learning community experience, and those who take it come out feeling transformed (in a good way!). Register for Learning on Purpose. Who should take part in Learning on Purpose? …
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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 …
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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”

This week-long seminar, directed by Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung, is designed for preachers, church and campus ministry leaders, professors and others dedicated to work that shapes worship. We will explore questions such as, Why does cultivating Christlike character matter for how we preach? How do virtues such as wisdom and love, humility and gratitude, hope and …
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Glenn Morison is on a short list of people who have worked both as a prison chaplain and as a stock broker. He is an ordained United Church Minister who has worshipped with the Quaker Meeting in Winnipeg for the last 11 years. This two-session online workshop will focus on things he wished he knew about money …
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The Renovaré Institute for Christian Spiritual Formation is a two-year online and in-person school designed to plunge you into that life. Over the course of two years, students are guided in daily online studies, practice a variety of spiritual disciplines, develop a spiritual community with a small group of co-learners, and experience four week-long learning …
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Christian practices constitute the Christian life. Communal practices facilitate the integration of personal, spiritual, academic, and global formation into coherent Christian discipleship through reflection, relationships, and practices. This is an integrative course that explores the identity and practices of Christian community as a people called, gathered, and sent by God. Together, professor and students will …
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What is mine to do? Who am I called to be? Why am I here? Join us for the refreshment, vitality and deepening in prayer that is made possible together in this expanded form of spiritual community. Through storytelling and sharing of their experience, the course leaders will help renew your appreciation of your life …
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We often think of aging gracefully as “looking old, but still holding on” or “showing signs of aging, but still moving forward with life.”  Aging gracefully is not all about age or appearance, but also about the attitude we have as we go through the various stages of life. Explore how our feelings about aging …
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