Seminars and Book Studies

Current Offerings:

Hope: An Anchor in Today’s World.

Program canceled due to coronavirus outbreak. Will be rescheduled. ...

Past Programs:

Praying into Lent

Lent gives us an opportunity to reflect on God’s great love for us through Jesus’s life, suffering and death on the cross. There are many forms of prayer and this Retreat Day will offer you options for your own personal prayer life and to grow spiritually during this Lenten season....

2019 Fall colloquium for spiritual directors, clergy, chaplains, pastoral leaders

This Fall’s Colloquium explored ways to help spiritual directors and those who pastor to companion directees who are longing for the Someone/Something beyond themselves who teaches us about the Mystery of life and a greater capacity to love and be loved. The Rev. Canon Jannel Glennie is an Episcopal priest. ...

Church: Does It Still Have Meaning For Us Today?

Why not spend some time revisiting "Church"? We will glance at a bit of history and then look at the Church "we leave behind" and the Church "we are moving into." We will reflect together on what it means to be a Christian in today's world....

Meeting Jesus through the Eyes of a Global Community

What does it mean to be a disciple of Jesus in today's global world? Is the Jesus we preach and teach a white North American Jesus? What about seeing Jesus as Asian? Can we imagine how this might expand our understanding? Take the time to look in a new way...

Meeting Jesus through the Eyes of a Global Community

What does it mean to be a disciple of Jesus in today's global world? Is the Jesus we preach and teach a white North American Jesus? How do Christians in Latin America relate to Jesus of Nazareth? Come and expand your horizons to new ways of knowing Jesus....
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Spiritual Direction: Listening to God

Are you wondering about seeking guidance from a spiritual director, would you find spiritual direction valuable in your spiritual life, or do you feel called to the spiritual direction ministry?  Bring your questions, ponderings, discernment to a Saturday morning workshop....

Parables Revisited

The Parables of Jesus are familiar and yet not all of the parables are found in every gospel. Some parables are found in only one gospel while others parables are repeated in all of the gospels. Most of us know the parable’ stories but what if we took another look?...

Book Study: Partaking of God: Trinity, Evolution, and Ecology

Four study Sessions led by Patricia Benson, OP. Pat is a Dominican, a Theologian, and a former science teacher who deeply desires that God and faith be alive and active in people of the twenty-first century. Book to study: Partaking of God: Trinity, Evolution, and Ecology Author: Denis Edwards...

Seminar: Christians in an Evolving Universe

Explore how our encounter with God profoundly shapes our understanding of the world and what it means to be human.  Encounter some of the new discoveries contemporary theologians have made about our Creator God and humanity’s place in the unfolding universe.  Ponder new developments in the Christian understanding of sin...
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2018 Fall Colloquium for Spiritual Directors

This Fall's Colloquium will explore ways to help spiritual directors enable directees to identify and to heal spiritual wounds from abuse and trauma by re-discovering God and self; integrating body, mind, spirit; and transformation to spiritual wholeness....