Join Artists Pippa Dean-Veerman & Alison Beaumont for an immersive and rejuvenating retreat. Pippa & Alison are excited to be offering their first retreat at The Sorrento Centre, in Sorrento BC. This beautiful 24 acre site, will be the home of an experience providing nourishment for your soul. We will dive deeply into connecting with …
View course details “Me to We Retreat: A Co-Creation Art Retreat–Visioning Together With The Earth”
A few years ago one of our pilgrimage leaders, Ken Gray, enjoyed the movie The Way, starring Martin Sheen. Determined to finish his late son’s Camino journey, he carries cremated remains in an act of sacred disposition. The path followed is the historic pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, a route and practice increasingly popular for …
View course details “A Pilgrim’s Way, led by a team of explorers”
Wild Church is a sacred nature-based experience to awaken deep love for self, earth and all beings for the survival and healing of the planet. It is a new expression of church where Mystery is experienced, not explained. Wild Church BC is hosting this course which offers participants a chance to go deeper in their …
View course details “Wellsprings: Going Deeper into Mystery”
This course provides an in-depth exploration of two central Christian doctrines – the Trinity and the person of Christ – as well as reflection on the role of Holy Scripture and the nature of theology. This is the first part of a two-part sequence in basic Christian doctrine. 1 credit.
This course traces Israel’s covenant life in the promised land during the time of Joshua, the judges, and the kings and prophets of Israel. From the peoples’ entry to the land to their exile from it, the land was the focal point of the faithful expressions and profound failures of covenant life. The characters and …
View course details “Joshua-Kings: Promise and Failure in the Land”
This course is an introduction to the physical, emotional, practical and spiritual needs of the dying, and effective community and pastoral responses to those needs. Students will acquire a theological understanding of living well and dying well from a Christian perspective. They will become familiar with some of the ethical, legal, medical, and practical issues …
View course details “Go in Peace: Care for the Dying in Christian Community”
An introduction to those loci (topics) within systematic theology having to do with the relationship between the LORD God and the world, especially to human beings as created, fallen, and transformingly engaged by divine grace. More specifically, we will be covering the themes of (1) creation and providence, (2) the human person, (3) sin, (4) …
View course details “The Bride of the Lamb: Systematic Theology II”
Surveys the Reformation in Britain and Ireland from the accession of Henry VIII (1509) to the death of Elizabeth (1603). Identifies the historiographical debates and the perspectives of modern scholarship. Assesses the condition of the late medieval church in respect of vitality, institutional disfunction, and reform. Provides a detailed examination of developments under Henry VIII …
View course details “Reformation in Britain and Ireland”
The Diakonia of the Americas and Caribbean (DOTAC) will hold an online study series event using the document, “Called to Transformation: Ecumenical Diakonia.” The document to be used is a joint publication of the World Council of Churches and ACT Alliance and which provides a common platform for acting and reflecting together for the churches and …
View course details “Called to Transformation: Ecumenical Diakonia”
With Jane Kuepfer, RP, PhD, MDiv, Schlegel Specialist in Spirituality and Aging with the Schlegel-UW Research Institute for Aging and Conrad Grebel University College. Kuepfer is a spiritual director, an ordained minister, a registered psychotherapist, and serves as a spiritual care provider in a retirement home, alongside her teaching and research roles. Within 10 years …
View course details “Dementia and Spirituality: Loss, Love, and Navigating Change Together”
