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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
  - Called to Work – a free program for small groups
- - 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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- 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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Michele (Mickie) Micklewright on Hybrid Narrative

Scholar Fridays

By Collegeville Institute

Michele (Mickie) Micklewright describes her hybrid narrative titled In the Dawn of Shadows: The Voice of a Minister, a Woman, from the Catholic Tradition. →
Emotional Eating is Good, Natural, and Holy

An Excerpt from The Living Diet

By Martha Tatarnic

Telling someone to not eat emotionally makes as much sense as telling someone to breathe less. →
Beth Kissileff on Grieving After Tragedy

Scholar Fridays

By Collegeville Institute

In this interview, short-term Resident Scholar Beth Kissileff describes her project on grieving and finding comfort after a traumatic event. →
Devotion

By Bo Niles

Bo Niles' new poem "Devotion" reflects on reading poet Mary Oliver's work after her death. →
The Sourdough Sabbath

By Renée Bondy

It is no coincidence that the day-long process of making sourdough requires adherence to a schedule, much like a monastic horarium. →

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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Michele (Mickie) Micklewright on Hybrid Narrative

Scholar Fridays

Emotional Eating is Good, Natural, and Holy

An Excerpt from The Living Diet

Beth Kissileff on Grieving After Tragedy

Scholar Fridays

Devotion

The Sourdough Sabbath

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