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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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    for those looking to stay a semester or a full academic year
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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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- - Open Applications:
  - Our Own Deep Wells: Writing on Vocation across Race and Culture
  - Emerging Writers Mentorship Program
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- - Closed Applications:
  - Please note: We are not accepting applications for many of our summer 2021 workshops because we rescheduled several from summer 2020 due to Covid-19. We will return to a full roster of our summer writing workshops in 2022.
  - Apart, and Yet a Part: A Workshop with Writing Coach Michael N. McGregor
  - Exploring Identity and (Dis)belonging through the Personal Essay
  - In the Thick of It: Explorations of Advanced Topics in Prose Writing
  - Breaking the Academic Mold: Liberating the Powerful, Personal Voice Inside You
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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
  - Books – publications 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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- 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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Awakening Theological Imagination in the Congregation: A Spiritual Practice of Writing with Karen Hering

27 May 2014

Venue: Collegeville Institute
Categories: Writing Workshop
Tags: religious imagination, theological imagination, writing workshops

Helping pastors and religious educators cultivate personal attentiveness and invigorate theological conversation in their congregations

Apart, and yet a Part

08 July 2014

Venue: Collegeville Institute
Categories: Writing Workshop
Tags: independent writing, Michael N. McGregor, writing workshops

Independent, unstructured work in community

Deepening Words: Writing and the Spiritual Life—A Week with Lauren Winner

16 July 2014

Venue: Collegeville Institute
Categories: Writing Workshop
Tags: Lauren Winner, spiritual writing, writing workshops

Bringing together the disciplines of writing and Christian spirituality

Writing to Change the World: A Week with Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

28 July 2014

Venue: Collegeville Institute
Categories: Writing Workshop
Tags: Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, social change, writing workshops

for those interested in writing for social change

Poetry, Prose and Prayer: A Week with Michael Dennis Browne

05 August 2014

Venue: Collegeville Institute
Categories: Writing Workshop
Tags: creativity, liturgy, Michael Dennis Browne, poetry, writing workshops

For poets, novelists, essayists, liturgical prayer and hymn text writers

Posts, Tweets, Blogs, and Faith: Writing for the Digital Public Square—A Week with Verity Jones

13 August 2014

Venue: Collegeville Institute
Categories: Writing Workshop
Tags: digital media, Sari Fordham, Verity Jones, writing workshops

Helping pastors and other religious leaders write and practice new skills for the digital world

Writing to Change the World: A Week with Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

17 June 2015

Venue: Collegeville Institute
Categories: Writing Workshop
Tags: Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, social change, writing workshops

for those interested in writing for social change.
The application deadline for this workshop has passed.

Women Writing: A Week with Lauren Winner

28 June 2015

Venue: Collegeville Institute
Categories: Writing Workshop
Tags: autobiography, Lauren Winner, nonfiction, writing workshops

For women writing autobiographical, nonfiction prose.
The application deadline for this workshop has passed.

Awakening Theological Imagination in the Congregation: A Spiritual Practice of Writing with Karen Hering

06 July 2015

Venue: Collegeville Institute
Categories: Writing Workshop
Tags: Karen Hering, religious imagination, theological imagination, writing workshops

Helping pastors and religious educators cultivate personal attentiveness and invigorate theological conversation in their congregations.
The application deadline for this workshop has passed.

Poetry, Prose, and Prayer: A Week with Michael Dennis Browne

14 July 2015

Venue: Collegeville Institute
Categories: Writing Workshop
Tags: creativity, Michael Dennis Browne, poetry, writing workshops

For poets and prose writers exploring religious themes in their work. The application deadline for this workshop has passed.

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Event Tag Archives: writing workshops

Awakening Theological Imagination in the Congregation: A Spiritual Practice of Writing with Karen Hering

Apart, and yet a Part

Deepening Words: Writing and the Spiritual Life—A Week with Lauren Winner

Poetry, Prose and Prayer: A Week with Michael Dennis Browne

Posts, Tweets, Blogs, and Faith: Writing for the Digital Public Square—A Week with Verity Jones

Women Writing: A Week with Lauren Winner

Awakening Theological Imagination in the Congregation: A Spiritual Practice of Writing with Karen Hering

Poetry, Prose, and Prayer: A Week with Michael Dennis Browne

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