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:
  - We will be posting Fall 2021 writing workshop offerings in May. Check back later.
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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.
- Resources for Faith and Writing
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- Bearings magazine
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Resources for Congregations

The Collegeville Institute Seminars offers resources to help congregations engage Christians around important questions of vocation and calling. Learn more about our latest project: the Communities of Calling Initiative »

Communities of Calling Initiative

An initiative that invites congregations into a 5-year project on vocation.

Learn More »

Lives Explored videos

A video narrative series with real-life vocation stories.

Watch the Videos »

Called to Life

Called to Life Participant Guide

A program for small groups to explore how God calls in relation to our whole life.

Free Download »

Called to Work

Called to Work Participant Guide

A program for small groups to explore the relationship between professional work and calling.

Free Download »

For more information about our programs, please contact Laura Kelly Fanucci, Program Director, Communities of Calling Initiative, at lkfanucci@collegevilleinstitute.org

Congregations are the best places for God’s people to be inspired and equipped to live out their callings each day. In the congregation people can be led to find their center in God, as revealed in Jesus Christ. At its best, the congregation can then offer us a safe place in which we can talk about the brokenness, fragmentation, and challenges of our daily lives, and where we can explore how to live our faith in every arena of our lives.

—Jack Fortin, The Centered Life