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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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- - 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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Is God Going to Save Us from this Ecological Mess We’re In?

03 April 2013

Venue: Collegeville Institute
Categories: Lecture
Tags: earth, eco-theology, environment, theology

Daniel Brunner discusses why Christians should care about the earth, what the Bible has to say on this issue, and why Christians are divided about environmental concerns.

Keeping the Catholic in Catholic Higher Education

13 November 2013 3:30 pm

Venue: Quadrangle Building 264
Categories: Lecture
Tags: academy, Catholic, faculty, higher education, philosophy, theology

Resident scholar Fr. William Graham led us in an exploration of Catholicism’s role in the academy.

Christian Peace Theology

01 March 2014 12:00 pm

Venue: Minneapolis Convention Center
Categories: Lecture
Tags: dialogue, pacifism, peace, theology, violence

This lecture, held at the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize Forum, will survey theological debates over war and violence within the Christian tradition in a way that assumes others are listening in.

Ecological Footprints

23 April 2014 3:00 pm

Venue: Emmaus South Lounge, School of Theology and Seminary
Categories: Lecture
Tags: climate change, ecology, franciscan, theology

This lecture will explore the Franciscan Intellectual Tradition and raise key questions about Christian environmental ethics.

Technoculture and Transcendence

22 April 2015 3:00 pm

Venue: Emmaus South Lounge, School of Theology and Seminary
Categories: Lecture, Scholar Presentation
Tags: literature, Margaret Atwood, science fiction, theology

This lecture will explore themes related to the doctrines of creation and eschatology emerging from Margaret Atwood’s dystopian take on modern culture.

Toward a Noncompetitive Theology of the Church

16 November 2015 7:45 pm

Venue: Abbey Chapter House
Categories: Lecture, Scholar Presentation
Tags: theology, vatican II

In this evening’s event, Rick Gaillardetz will propose a noncompetitive theology of the church that can resolve enduring problems concerning the relationship between the pope and bishops, laity and clergy, church and the world.

Play and Wisdom: Liturgy and the Liberal Arts

22 February 2017 7:30 pm

Venue: Quadrangle Building 264
Categories: Lecture, Scholar Presentation
Tags: Benedictine Spirituality, Brendan McInerny, higher education, lecture, liberal arts, liturgy, play, resident scholars, theology

Resident Scholar Brendan McInerny will present an alternative view of liberal arts as rooted in a theological account of play on February 22, 2017.

Writing Theology for the General Reader: A Week with Thomas G. Long

06 July 2017

Venue: Collegeville Institute
Categories: Writing Workshop
Tags: public theology, Sari Fordham, theology, Thomas G. Long, writing workshops

Theological writing for life and practice.
The application deadline for this workshop has passed.

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Event Tag Archives: theology

Is God Going to Save Us from this Ecological Mess We’re In?

Keeping the Catholic in Catholic Higher Education

Christian Peace Theology

Ecological Footprints

Technoculture and Transcendence

Toward a Noncompetitive Theology of the Church

Play and Wisdom: Liturgy and the Liberal Arts

Writing Theology for the General Reader: A Week with Thomas G. Long

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