United Church Scholarships
The application deadline for three United Church scholarship- the W. Norman McLeod Scholarship, the McGeachy Senior Scholarship, and the Davidson Trust Award is March 15th, 2014.
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Patrick’s Song, Brigid’s Well and Columba’s Island
This past weekend, February 7-9, 2014, Ted Dodd was privileged to attend a guided retreat on Celtic Spirituality, with the highly regarded preacher, author, and hymn lyricist, Herbert O’Driscoll. These are Ted’s reflections on the event… O’Driscoll cast a magic spell as he explored the topic with grace and a poet’s soul. With a breadth…
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Caring for All Creation
CCS student Tif McNaughton is part of leading a course called “Caring for All Creation: Land, Water, Our Natural Community.”
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Five Ways of Talking About Church
On Saturday, February 1st, Ted Dodd was asked to facilitate a conversation with the members of Winnipeg Presbytery, United Church of Canada. He decided to ground this discussion theologically by focusing on several models of ecclesiology/church, hoping to enable an interchange about our core beliefs about faith community. Here are some notes from Ted’s conversation……
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Tapestry – January 2014
A new edition of the Tapestry newsletter is available.
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Diaconal Ministry: History, Discernment, Formation, and Spirituality
Earlier this month, CCS program staff member Ted Dodd attended a course on Diaconal History and Spirituality at the Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary in Columbia, South Carolina.
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Wait! There’s More to Learn?!
Profile of two CCS students who used their CCS credits toward an academic degree.
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Making the Ordinary Strange
Lori Stewart interviewed Kuriko Fujiyoshi from the Dohoku Christian Centre in Hokkaido, Japan.
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Expressing our Values
A new articulation of CCS’s core values, and an invitation to artists to create work inspire by those values.
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Annual Campaign Intelligence
Thank you to all our donors. The figures are in and they are outstanding, or so the Finance Committee asserts.
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Launching a Presence at Epiphany Explorations
If you’re at the Epiphany Explorations event in Victoria this weekend, come visit the CCS display table.
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We’ve Joined the Twits!
CCS is now on Twitter. – @CCS_engage
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Videos from January’s Second Fridays – Respect
Doug McMurtry and Adrian Jacobs inspired us with their wise and insightful commentary on the concept of Respect.
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Diakonia: Epiphany Images of Christian Ministry 2014
A guided retreat at St. John’s Convent in Toronto, February 13-15, 2014, exploring diakonia through images of Epiphany.
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Second Fridays 2014 – Aboriginal and Non-aboriginal Voices in Conversation
Second Fridays presentations in January, February, and March will be a partnership between CCS and the Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre.
