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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.
    
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Research Seminars
- - The Collegeville Institute Seminars is an ecumenical, interdisciplinary research initiative in practical theology. Learn more about our projects:
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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
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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.

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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

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