Online with the Center for Anglican Learning and Leadership (CALL): September 16 – November 4, 2019 In person: Participation in the online course includes the workshop ‘Speaking our Faith,’ Saturday October 5, 2018, ECMN Retreat Center, Faribault. The Diaconate is an online course for deacons, deacons in formation, and those wishing to be better grounded in a … 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: August 5 – September 23, 2019 In person: Saturday, September 7, 2019, 8:30am – 3:30pm in Collegeville Saturday, October 5, 2019, 8:30am – 11:30am by Zoom videoconference. Instructors from our partnership with Leaderwise: Dr. Krista Redlinger-Grosse, Dr. Mark Sundby, and Dr. Pat Veach What’s the difference between pastoral care and pastoral counseling? What challenges … 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 13 – March 2, 2019 In Person: In 2019-20, there is no in-person workshop associated with this course. 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 … More New Testament Interpretation
Online with the Center for Anglican Learning and Leadership: January 13 – March 1, 2020 In Person: Registration for this course includes a separate History Workshop — to be announced! 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, … More Church History: Wisdom for Mission Today
Online dates: This course does not include a Moodle component. In person: Friday March 6, 2020, 9am – 3pm at the ECMN Retreat Center in Faribault Friday, June 5, 2020, 9am – 3pm in the Cities Instructor: The Rev. Tim Hodapp, Canon for Mission Collaboration, Episcopal Church in Connecticut Pre-requisite: Missional Leadership I. What might … More Missional Leadership Lab
Online: August 5 – September 23, 2019 In Person: September 7, 2019 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: November 5 – December 23, 2019 Videoconference: Saturday, December 7, 2019, and other dates to be announced 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 … More Prayer Book I: The Sacraments
Online: February 3 – March 23, 2020 In Person: Saturday, March 7, 2020, 8:30am – 3:30pm at the ECMN Retreat Center, Faribault 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, … More Prayer Book II: The Pastoral Offices
Online: April 27 – June 15, 2020 In Person: Saturday, May 2, 2020 at the Episcopal House of Prayer, Collegeville 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 … More Practical Christian Ethics
Online Bootcamp: August 4, 2019, 5pm Central: Orientation to Mighty Networks Monday August 5 – Friday August 9: Sessions will be M-F, 1 hr. per day, choice of afternoon or evening sessions Online Course continues with one videoconference meeting per week, August 10 – September 23 with a choice of meeting times and options for … More Intro to Preaching: Craft an Effective Sermon by Friday
Online: October 7 – November 25, 2019 In Person: Saturday, November 2, 2019 at the Episcopal House of Prayer, Collegeville 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 … More The Creeds and Practical Theology
