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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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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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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Bearings Online Articles on Vocation

Goodbye to Books

When Linda Mercadante moved out of her seminary office, she had to sort through 83 linear feet of books from over three decades of teaching.
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A Decade to Diploma

For me—a person who didn’t intend to pastor, or perhaps even to minister vocationally—seminary felt like an extravagance I should forego.
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Welcomed as Christ

Do faith and justice go hand-in-hand? Nicholas Tangen writes how the Rule of St. Benedict helped him reconcile his theological and vocational communities.
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Shout Your Truth: Wisdom from Two Weeks with Sr. Joan Chittister, OSB

Being a millennial woman in the Roman Catholic Church is not a cakewalk. To be inspire change, according to Sr. Joan Chittister, one must shout.
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Dorothy Bass & Mark Schwehn on Leading Lives that Matter

As returning Resident Scholars, Dorothy Bass and Mark Schwehn are working on the second edition of their popular anthology Leading Lives that Matter.
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Edit Yourself

A good day of deleting feels like a successful day of purging your closet, cleaning your kitchen, or weeding your garden.
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Finding the Needles

What is it like reading through submissions at a literary journal? Finding the proverbial needle in the haystack calls for ruthless efficiency.
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An Editor’s Envy

In our new series on editing, acquisitions editor Valerie Weaver-Zercher describes the "holy jealousy" that sometimes occurs when working with writers.
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Rules for Radical Sabbatarians

Writer, pastor, and community organizer Donna Schaper shares her tips for how fellow radicals can make the most of a sabbatical.
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For the Love

Every human being needs to be an amateur, to discover and then embrace some "thing" just for the love of it. This pursuit, writes John Hudson, "connects us somehow to the deepest part of the soul."
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