Building Bridges across Culture and Race Online: April 9 – May 28, 2018 In person: Saturday, May 5 at the Episcopal House of Prayer, Collegeville : 9:30am – 1:30pm Saturday, June 2 in the Twin Cities : 9:30am – 1:30pm Instructors: Richard Webb M.Ed. and Carrie Carroll M.A. Take the next step into racial reconciliation … More Building Bridges Across Culture and Race
Online: November 6, 2017 – January 1, 2018 In Person: Saturday, December 2, 2017 at St. John’s School of Theology in Collegeville Instructors: Dr. Mark Sundby, Dr. Krista Redlinger-Grosse, and Dr. Pat Veach Leadership in faith communities involves supporting individuals in community to put their gifts into practice. Helping those communities through the complex dynamics of … More Family Systems and Human Awareness
Online: August 7 – September 25, 2017 In person: Saturday, Sept. 9 at St. John’s School of Theology in Collegeville, AND Saturday, October 7, ECMN Retreat Center, Faribault Instructors: Dr. Mark Sundby, Dr. Krista Redlinger-Grosse, and Dr. Pat Veach This course is designed to further introduce you to pastoral care and the issues that commonly arise … More Introduction to Pastoral Care
Online: February 5 – April 2, 2018 In person: Saturday, March 3, 2018 at St. John’s School of Theology in Collegeville This is a hands-on, practical course that helps create specific skills to prepare an excellent scripted sermon. Topics include: basic communication principles that have relevance for preaching; crafting a central idea based on a Biblical text; … More Preaching Lab
Would you like to bring this workshop/course to your faith community? Reach out to formation@episcopalmn.org to start the conversation. The basic skills of community organizing are things that many Christians already practice in their lives together. Listening deeply to each other, caring for others, identifying gifts, praying for guidance, and speaking truth — all these … More Organizing for Faith Communities
Online: November 6, 2017 – January 1, 2018 In Person: Saturday, December 2, 2017 at St. John’s School of Theology in Collegeville How can existing faith communities use their resources for creative experiments in meeting God in their neighbors and neighborhoods? How can your faith community escape the pattern of scarcity to realize God’s dream … More Missional Management
Online with the Center for Anglican Learning and Leadership: April 9 – May 28, 2018 In Person: Registration includes a workshop on May 5, 2018, Emmaus Hall, Collegeville What We Believe: Theology in the Anglican Tradition It has become rather commonplace to suppose that Anglican Christians care mostly about liturgy and not very much about theology. … More Anglican Theology
Online: August 7 – September 25, 2017 In Person: September 9, 2017 at the Episcopal House of Prayer, Collegeville What is the church here for? How can we understand mission in a world in which the church no longer holds cultural privilege? What is God up to in the neighborhood and how are we gifted … More Missional Leadership I: Participating in God’s Life and Love for the World
Online: Monday, February 5 – Monday, April 2, 2018 In Person: Saturday, March 3, 2018 at the Episcopal House of Prayer in Collegeville The Old Testament is perhaps one the most fascinating yet misunderstood parts of the church’s heritage. Many of us—both in and outside of Christianity—are somewhat familiar with particular stories, but we lack a clear … More Layers: The Story of the Old Testament
Online: November 6, 2017 – January 1, 2018 In Person: Saturday, December 2, 2017 at the Episcopal House of Prayer in Collegeville This course introduces students to the study of liturgy and its practice in worshipping communities. Primary focus will be on the ways we think theologically about liturgy and how to lead in the liturgy. Particular … More Prayer Book I: The Sacraments
Online: February 5, 2018 – April 2, 2018 In Person: March 3, 2018 at St. John’s School of Theology in Collegeville All baptized Christians are baptized for the ministry of worship and service in Christ’s Church and in the world. In the Episcopal Church, that ministry takes many shapes, including the call to ordained ministry as bishop, … More Prayer Book II: The Pastoral Offices
Online: August 7 – September 25, 2017 Weekly video calls: Tuesdays 8:00-9:00am CST, and Wednesdays 6:00-7:00pm CST. Participants can come to either session each week. If someone has a *significant* issue making either of those times, or the group comes up with a better time that also works, instructors can work with that. In Person: Saturday, September 9, 2017 … More Homiletics
