Residency Programs
- - 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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    for those looking to stay for a shorter period of time
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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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- - Fall Workshops:
  - Writing for Mystic Activists with Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
  - Writing Spirit, Writing Faith: A Week with Mary Potter
  - In early May, we will be posting one additional Fall 2021 writing workshop hosted in Massachusetts. Check back soon.
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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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Married Saints? Come to know Georges and Pauline Vanier

03 October 2013 4:00 pm

Venue: Quadrangle Building 170, Founders Room
Categories: Lecture
Tags: Georges and Pauline Vanier, Jean Vanier, marriage, saints

Mary Frances Coady introduces us to this remarkable couple— Georges and Pauline Vanier—who have had a profound impact on Canadian institutions, history, politics, and culture.

Mending a Tattered Faith

19 November 2014 11:30 am

Venue: Quadrangle Building 170, Founders Room
Categories: Lecture, Scholar Presentation
Tags: devotional life, Emily Dickinson, poetry

This talk will briefly discuss the history of the relationship of poetry and devotion, consider strategies for reading poetry devotionally, and introduce some poetic resources for devotional times.

Between Constantinople and Jerusalem: Music and Sacred Ritual in Medieval Slavia Orthodoxa

03 December 2015 4:00 pm

Venue: Quadrangle Building 170, Founders Room
Categories: Lecture, Scholar Presentation
Tags: Anna Levy, Constantine, Gregory Myers, Jerusalem, music

This lecture by Gregory Myers and Anna Levy explores the music and sacred ritual in Medieval Slavia Orthodoxa.

Prayer in Schools (English-style)

10 November 2016 12:15 pm

Venue: Quadrangle Building 170, Founders Room
Categories: Lecture, Scholar Presentation
Tags: England, prayer, Public Schools, worship

The provision of a daily act of collective worship is a legal requirement in all state-funded schools in England. Sarah Lane Cawte, Collegeville Institute Resident Scholar and Education Officer for Free Churches Group and Churches Together in England, will present

From Occupation to Colonization: Israel and the Palestinians

22 March 2017 11:30 am

Venue: Quadrangle Building 170, Founders Room
Categories: Scholar Presentation
Tags: Brown-bag Lunch and Learn, colonization, Israel, occupation, Palestine, resident scholars

Join Resident Scholar Arland Jacobson at this Lunch and Learn presentation about the Palestinian Israeli conflict. Registration required.

The Migrant’s Double Vision

22 March 2018 7:45 pm

Venue: Quadrangle Building 170, Founders Room
Categories: Lecture, Scholar Presentation
Tags: Jaisy A. Joseph, migrants, Pope Francis

Resident Scholar Jaisy A. Joseph will deliver a lecture on Pope Francis' notion of "culture of encounter," exploring how double vision of migrants in particular is an important catalyst for theological reflection.

Kathleen Norris at the Benedictine Institute

09 November 2018 11:30 am

Venue: Quadrangle Building 170, Founders Room
Categories: Scholar Presentation
Tags: Kathleen Norris, Lunch and Learn

Come hear Resident Scholar Kathleen Norris speak about how Benedictine values can change difficult situations into grace-filled encounters.

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Events at: Quadrangle Building 170, Founders Room

Married Saints? Come to know Georges and Pauline Vanier

Mending a Tattered Faith

Between Constantinople and Jerusalem: Music and Sacred Ritual in Medieval Slavia Orthodoxa

Prayer in Schools (English-style)

From Occupation to Colonization: Israel and the Palestinians

The Migrant’s Double Vision

Kathleen Norris at the Benedictine Institute

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