Online with the Center for Anglican Learning and Leadership (CALL): September 14 – November 2, 2020 Videoconferences: Dates forthcoming The Diaconate is an online course for deacons, deacons in formation, and those wishing to be better grounded in a sound understanding of The Sacred Order of Deacons including especially, members of local discernment committees and members … More The Diaconate
Take a day to step back and reflect on how your faith community’s practices of adult faith formation are nourishing courageous and hopeful Christian lives. … More Adult Faith Formation Workshop 2018
Refresh your perspective on the ministry of Jesus and lean into the practice of Beloved Community during this day of teaching and reflection with Kathy Grieb. … More Meeting Paul in His Letters
Saturday, February 2, 2019, 9am – 3pm in Collegeville, MN, Followed by a Deacon Call Conversation hosted by the Commission for the Diaconate — more details to come about this portion of the day. Participants in this workshop will review the history of deacons, deaconesses, and the revival of the diaconate over the last 150 years. … More The Diaconate, Diakonia, and Why They Matter to the Church
Online: Monday, August 10 – Monday, September 28, 2020 Videoconferences: Dates and times forthcoming Instructor in partnership with Leaderwise: The Rev. Dr. Cindy Halvorson What’s the difference between pastoral care and pastoral counseling? What challenges arise in pastoral counseling encounters, and how can those doing pastoral ministry build their resilience for the long haul? This … More Pastoral Care: Advanced Skills
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 with the Center for Anglican Learning and Leadership: January 18 – March 8, 2021Videoconferences: Dates forthcoming The New Testament stands as the key resource for preaching, theology, and spiritual formation, growth, and encouragement in the Christian tradition. This course will give students a foundational background in the process of faithful interpretation of New Testament texts … More New Testament Interpretation
Online with the Center for Anglican Learning and Leadership: January 18 – March 8, 2021Videoconferences: Dates forthcoming This course will explore the history of Christianity by focusing on snapshots of it in different times and places, by attending to its diversity over time, by encountering contrasting historical figures in its history, by asking what “salvation” meant … More Church History: Wisdom for Mission Today
Online dates: Forthcoming Videoconferences: Forthcoming Instructor: The Rev. Tim Hodapp, Canon for Mission Collaboration, Episcopal Church in Connecticut Pre-requisite: Missional Leadership I. What might it be like to travel lightly together and join in what Jesus is already up to in the places where you live and work, play and pray? (Luke 10 and the … More Missional Leadership Lab
Online: Monday, August 10 – Monday, September 28, 2020 Videoconferences: Dates and times forthcoming 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 and called to join in … More Missional Leadership I: Participating in God’s Life and Love for the World
Online: November 2 – December 21, 2020Videoconferences: Dates forthcoming 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 attention will be given to how we use the Book of … More Prayer Book I: The Sacraments
Online: February 1 – March 22, 2021 Videoconferences: Dates forthcoming All good liturgy is deeply theological and deeply pastoral. This course focuses on liturgy at life’s seams and disruptions, including confirmation, marriage, childbirth, praying with the sick, confession, burial, and times of crisis, looking at both pastoral and theological aspects of these liturgies. Alongside this, we … More Prayer Book II: The Pastoral Offices
Online: March 8 – May 3, 2021 Videoconferences: Dates forthcoming What do you say to a young woman and her parents when they come to you for counseling about an unplanned pregnancy? Are there theological resources that either prohibit or support euthanasia? What does the Christian tradition say about war? What does the command to “love … More Practical Christian Ethics
Online Bootcamp: Course orientation: Tuesday, August 4, 7pm Central Time Sunday August 9 – Thursday August 13: 1 hr. per day at 7pm Central Time Participants should plan on 2-3 hours daily during Bootcamp for the live session, video, and sermon prep Online Course continues: Monday, August 10 – Monday, September 28, 2020. Participants should … More Intro to Preaching: Craft an Effective Sermon by Friday
Online: October 12 – November 30, 2020 Videoconferences: Dates forthcoming Creeds encapsulate Christian beliefs; they also attempt to quell theological controversy. This course examines the historical origins of the Nicene and Apostles Creeds with special attention to the theological conflicts that animated their formulations. After treating the original contexts in which the creeds were developed, … More The Creeds and Practical Theology
