Why Don’t My Children (and grandchildren) Go To Church
“When they were young, we took our children every Sunday, but now they’re older and they don’t go. What did we do wrong?”
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Mountain-top Moments and the Valleys of Reconciliation
“Like the transfiguration, the TRC is not an end in and of itself on the mountaintop, but a series of revelations in the long and lived valley of reconciliation.” Marcie Gibson reflections on reconciliation.
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Shrove Tuesday
Three grads and one student from CCS led a Shrove Tuesday service in Burnaby, BC
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Winter is a Culture
“People who live in winter appreciate the spring.” Kimiko Karpoff reflects on winter.
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Spiritual Practice for Lent
Ted has been contemplating the gospel readings for Lent. He offers this series of reflections, inviting folks to consider taking a day a week during this period to pray the scripture, follow the suggestions for spiritual practices and consider the questions about life in faith.
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AGM 2014 recap
About 35 friends of the Centre for Christian Studies from all across the country got on the phone last Thursday night for our Annual General Meeting.
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Listening With Our Hearts
“I experienced the time spent there – in sacred quiet, in worship and in community – to be nurturing; physically, emotionally, and spiritually.” Gail Clarkson reflects on the Epiphany Images of Diakonia event.
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Videos from February’s Second Fridays – Community
Join us this Friday for the next in our Second Fridays series of noon-hour presentations and discussions, this month exploring the theme of “Community” with guest presenters Mary Coswin and Karen Jolly.
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Invitation – 2014 AGM
Everything you need to know to take part in the CCS Annual General Meeting on February 20th at 6pm CST.
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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.
