At the Collegeville Institute

Collegeville Institute board member and writing workshop leader Ellie Roscher published her first picture book, Remarkable Rose: the story of a girl in Kenya who used her soccer skills to change people’s minds about what girls could do. 

The Collegeville Institute Seminar on Vocation and Disability, in partnership with Western Theological Seminary, continued its exploration of disability as a particular site of human vocation.

Pastor Kim Knowle-Zeller of Saint Paul’s Lutheran Church in Cole Camp, MO reflects on her time in Collegeville for the final Communities of Calling Initiative annual gathering in June.

The Collegeville Institute board of directors recently elected five new members: Peter Butler, Molly Marshall, Jakob Rinderknecht, Karyn Sciortino Johnson, and Marty Stortz.

From June 19-25, nine writers of creative prose gathered at the Collegeville Institute for About Me, About You: a week-long interfaith writing workshop for women of color, led by writer and former program participant and Collegeville Institute Resident Scholar Roohi Choudhry.

The Collegeville Institute’s Board of Directors has appointed an Acting Executive Director to fulfill the leadership duties necessary to keep the Collegeville Institute moving forward with purpose and vitality.

The Collegeville Institute’s 2021-23 Rural Minnesota Fellows Cohort II had their final gathering on May 22-24, 2023. For the past 18 months, the ecumenical group of ministers came together quarterly in Collegeville for times of learning, conversation, and fellowship.