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- - 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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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
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- - Lives Explored – a video storytelling project
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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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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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Finding Words When We Have None

On Mary Oliver and “In Blackwater Woods”

By Laura Kelly Fanucci

When her infant daughters were dying in the hospital, Laura Kelly Fanucci spoke Mary Oliver's poem "In Blackwater Woods" over them like a benediction. →
Loving and Leaving a Church

An Interview with Barbara Melosh

By Susan Sink

In her memoir Loving and Leaving a Church, Barbara Melosh explores the challenges of being a mainline pastor in a declining congregation. →
Book Notes, January 2019

By Collegeville Institute

Our January Book Notes includes four new titles on topics ranging from Celtic spirituality to faith at midlife by authors affiliated with the Collegeville Institute. →
Disillusionment and the Divine

A Review of The Dangers of Spiritual Practice

By Amy Peterson

Over ten years after publishing a best-seller on spiritual practices, Lauren Winner returns to explore their characteristic damage in her latest book. →
Ten Thousand Garden Questions Answered

By Anne Higgins

"Why can’t my lavender live through the frost? / Why does my skin make cancer in the sun?" →

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Finding the Needles

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An Editor’s Envy

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Finding Words When We Have None

On Mary Oliver and “In Blackwater Woods”

Loving and Leaving a Church

An Interview with Barbara Melosh

Book Notes, January 2019

Disillusionment and the Divine

A Review of The Dangers of Spiritual Practice

Ten Thousand Garden Questions Answered

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Finding Words When We Have None

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Edit Yourself

Please Don’t Hate Me

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