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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.
    
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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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The Writing Pastor: A Workshop with Patricia Tull

06 October 2014

Venue: Louisville Seminary in Louisville, KY
Categories: Writing Workshop
Tags: church leaders, Louisville Seminary, pastors, spiritual practice, writing

for pastors and church leaders who are committed to the ways writing can be a spiritual practice

The Writing Pastor: A Workshop with J. Bradley Wigger

25 October 2015

Venue: Louisville Seminary in Louisville, KY
Categories: Writing Workshop
Tags: church leaders, Louisville Seminary, pastors, spiritual practice, writing

For pastors and church leaders who are committed to the ways writing can be a spiritual practice.
The application deadline for this workshop has passed.

The Writing Pastor: A Workshop with J. Bradley Wigger

16 October 2016

Venue: Louisville Seminary in Louisville, KY
Categories: Regional Workshop, Writing Workshop
Tags: church leaders, J. Bradley Wigger, Louisville Seminary, off-site, pastors, spiritual practice, writing

For pastors and church leaders who are committed to the ways writing can be a spiritual practice.
The application deadline for this workshop has passed.

A Writer’s Journey: Benedictine Values as Muse with Kathleen Norris

21 October 2018 7:00 pm

Venue: Abbey Chapter House
Categories: Lecture, Scholar Presentation
Tags: Kathleen Norris, Saint John's Abbey, spiritual practice, Sunday at the Abbey, writing

Kathleen Norris, acclaimed author and Fall 2018 Resident Scholar at the Collegeville Institute, will present "A Writer's Journey: Benedictine Values as Muse."

Words and the Word: The Writer as Seeker and Servant with Dorothy Bass

11 November 2018 7:00 pm

Venue: Abbey Chapter House
Categories: Lecture, Scholar Presentation
Tags: Dorothy Bass, spiritual practice, Sunday at the Abbey, writing

Dorothy Bass will present on Sunday, November 11 as part of Saint John Abbey’s “Sunday at the Abbey” series on Writing as a Spiritual Practice.

Writing to Reveal the Holy in Brokenness with Susan Sink

17 February 2019 7:00 pm

Venue: Abbey Chapter House
Categories: Lecture
Tags: Saint John's Abbey, spiritual practice, Sunday at the Abbey, Susan Sink, writing

Susan Sink, former Resident Scholar and current Communications Associate at the Collegeville Institute, will present in the "Sunday at the Abbey" series on Writing as a Spiritual Practice.

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The Writing Pastor: A Workshop with Patricia Tull

The Writing Pastor: A Workshop with J. Bradley Wigger

The Writing Pastor: A Workshop with J. Bradley Wigger

A Writer’s Journey: Benedictine Values as Muse with Kathleen Norris

Words and the Word: The Writer as Seeker and Servant with Dorothy Bass

Writing to Reveal the Holy in Brokenness with Susan Sink

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