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Residency Programs
- - Scholars, clergy, church leaders, thinkers, artists, and writers who are seeking to discern and communicate the meaning of Christian identity and unity in a religiously and culturally diverse world are invited to apply for our residency programs.
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    for those looking to stay a semester or a full academic year
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    for those looking to stay for a shorter period of time
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Writing Workshops
- - Each summer, the Collegeville Institute opens its doors to pastors, ministers, lay leaders, and other thinkers and writers for week-long, intensive writing workshops geared toward various levels of writing skill, genre and interest.
    
    Each fall, the Collegeville Institute partners with other institutes, seminaries, or churches to coordinate regional off-site workshops.
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Vocation Projects
- - The Communities of Calling Initiative invites congregations into a 5-year project on vocation.
    
    The Collegeville Institute Seminars offer resources to explore calling in your community.
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- Resources on Vocation:
- - Called to Life – a free program for small groups
  - Called to Work – a free program for small groups
- - Lives Explored – a video storytelling project
  - Books – publications on vocation
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Fellows Program
- Bringing together an ecumenical group of gifted Minnesota faith leaders, the Collegeville Institute Fellows Program focuses on leadership development with the goal of strengthening religious leaders’ sense of themselves as civic leaders.
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- Twin Cities Fellows Program
- Rural Minnesota Fellows Program
- Multi-Religious Fellows Program
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Faith and Writing
- Good writing is essential to powerful theological education within congregations. In this section we highlight book reviews, provide resources for good writing, feature the writing of our program participants, and more.
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- Bearings magazine
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What May We Hope For?

By Vance Morgan

As the 13th century Dominican monk Meister Eckhart provocatively asked: “What good is it for me that Christ was born a thousand years ago in Bethlehem?” →
Full of Grace

By Andrew Taylor-Troutman

"But who’s so certain as to speak of God? / Who among us has held Great Mystery?" →
The Midwest Winter as Spiritual Desert

By Susan Yanos

In the midst of the hardest months of winter, ones marked with grief and emptiness, how can we trust that God is with us? →
Of Love and Faith

By Maggie Nerz Iribarne

"My husband is the one with the faith and I am the one with the religion; that’s what I always say." →
Come and See

By Mary Turck

"I have marched as faithfully as I have prayed. / If I have ever marched without praying, I do not know when." →

Edit Yourself

A good day of deleting feels like a successful day of purging your closet, cleaning your kitchen, or weeding your garden.

Please Don’t Hate Me

When editor Charnell Peters sent out her first rejections to writers, she added a desperate whisper: “Please don’t hate me!”

Finding the Needles

What is it like reading through submissions at a literary journal? Finding the proverbial needle in the haystack calls for ruthless efficiency.

An Editor’s Envy

In our new series on editing, acquisitions editor Valerie Weaver-Zercher describes the "holy jealousy" that sometimes occurs when working with writers.

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Edit Yourself

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Finding the Needles

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