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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- - Resident Scholars Program
    
    for those looking to stay a semester or a full academic year
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- - Short term Residencies
    
    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
  - 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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Dark Night of the Soul

16 September 2013

Venue: Quadrangle Building 264
Categories: Lecture
Tags: grief, meaning, neonatal death, stillbirth, tragedy

Presented by resident scholar, Jenell Paris, and Collegeville Institute Associate Director, Janel Kragt Bakker. Based on their research about parents’ lives of faith following stillbirth and neonatal death, Paris and Bakker consider the religious dimensions of this particular type of loss.

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.

Glamour, a Sense of Place, and Young People

20 March 2014 4:00 pm

Venue: Quadrangle Building 264
Categories: Lecture
Tags: meaning, place, Saint Benedict

Co-sponsored by the Benedictine Institute of Saint John’s University. More details to follow.

Implications of the Holocaust for Multireligious Conversations

20 April 2015 4:15 pm

Venue: Quadrangle Building 264
Categories: Lecture
Tags: conflict, conversation, dialogue, holocaust, interfaith

Victoria Barnett will discuss the implications of the holocaust for multireligious conversations.

Author Reading & Book Discussion of Pure Act: The Uncommon Life of Robert Lax

24 September 2015 11:45 am

Venue: Quadrangle Building 264
Categories: Author Reading
Tags: Michael N. McGregor, Robert Lax, Thomas Merton

The Collegeville Institute and CSB/SJU Libraries invite you to join author Michael N. McGregor for a Reading and Book Discussion of his recently published book, Pure Act: The Uncommon Life of Robert Lax.

Three Things You Need to Know if You’re an Academic and Want to Write for a Broader Audience

25 September 2015 11:30 am

Venue: Quadrangle Building 264
Categories: Lecture
Tags: academic writing, Brown-bag Lunch and Learn, Michael N. McGregor

The Collegeville Institute invites all CSB/SJU faculty to a Brown-bag Lunch and Learn titled, “Three Things You Need to Know if You’re an Academic and Want to Write for a Broader Audience.”

Life in Modern Russia: A Citizen’s Perspective

12 November 2015 8:00 pm

Venue: Quadrangle Building 264
Categories: Lecture, Scholar Presentation
Tags: Russia, St. Petersburg

Natalia Pecherskaya, a native Russian, will tell her story about life in St. Petersburg and beyond.

Bridging the Divide

21 January 2016 7:45 pm

Venue: Quadrangle Building 264
Categories: Lecture, Scholar Presentation
Tags: ethics, liturgy, worship

This discussion presents a way forward in navigating the often tumultuous question of how to concretely relate liturgy to justice and love of neighbor.

Francis: The First Latin American Pope

27 January 2016 7:30 pm

Venue: Quadrangle Building 264
Categories: Lecture, Scholar Presentation
Tags: Latin America, Pope Francis

How has Pope Francis’ pontificate—and, in particular, the changes in tone and agenda he has brought to the Catholic Church—been shaped by his experiences in Latin America?

Calling in Today’s World: Multifaith Perspectives

29 September 2016 7:00 pm

Venue: Quadrangle Building 264
Categories: Panel Discussion
Tags: Buddhism, calling, Christianity, Hinduism, interfaith, Judiasm, vocation

During this discussion, three panelists and a moderator will explore how callings are experienced and lived within their communities of faith.

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Dark Night of the Soul

Keeping the Catholic in Catholic Higher Education

Glamour, a Sense of Place, and Young People

Implications of the Holocaust for Multireligious Conversations

Author Reading & Book Discussion of Pure Act: The Uncommon Life of Robert Lax

Three Things You Need to Know if You’re an Academic and Want to Write for a Broader Audience

Life in Modern Russia: A Citizen’s Perspective

Bridging the Divide

Francis: The First Latin American Pope

Calling in Today’s World: Multifaith Perspectives

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