Category: Reflections

Theology of Justice and Liberation – October’s “Second Friday” videos online

The videos from last month’s Second Friday presentation on the theology of justice and liberation, featuring Maylanne Maybee, Barbara Lloyd, and Yoon Ok Shin, are now online.  And if you’re …

Cloud of Witnesses

CCS Principal Maylanne Maybee writes: Ann Naylor tells me that part of life at CCS is we keep fooling ourselves into thinking that once large events are over – like …

Highlights from “Diversity, Transformation, and Hope”

On October 11, CCS was thrilled to host a dialogue between Raheel Raza and Stan McKay on the themes of diversity, transformation, and hope.  Here are some snippets of their …

Laments for Creation

As part of their session on Creation and the Environment during the fall learning circle, students in the Social Ministry Year wrote laments.  Lament is a form of psalm dealing …

Strength and Skills of the Diaconate

“What are some strengths and skills that the diaconate bring to ministry?” That’s one of the questions current students asked the diaconal community that gathered in Winnipeg from October 11 …

Oh What A Weekend It Was – 120th Anniversary Recap

Principal Maylanne Maybee writes: Has CCS ever done such a thing before? Has there ever been anything like it? About 100 people – students and staff, past and present, graduates, …

Shrub Seeds of Transforming Hope

Marion Pardy’s sermon for  the CCS 120th Anniversary worship service on Sunday, October 14, 2012: Listen to audio (MP3) of Marion’s sermon.   Scripture: Job 14: 7-9; Romans 8: 22-28, …

CCS Twister

If you’ve been a CCS student or supported a student in their field placement, you might have come across the CCS program “placemats”. We use them in orientations to literally …

Fruits of the Earth, Fruits of Community

Principal Maylanne Maybee writes: I have spent the last week in two very different places and climates. From Wednesday to Sunday, I stayed with Phina Borgeson, a friend and fellow …

Feast for Friends

CCS’s Ann Naylor reflects on the “Feast for Friends” held at the Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre on September 22, 2012: Children are playing – working together to create a structure from …

Accompaniment and Solidarity Videos

The videos from September’s “Second Fridays at CCS” presentations are now available, so even if you weren’t in the room at lunch-time on the second Friday of the month, you …

A Week in the Life

Principal Maylanne Maybee writes: A lot goes on at CCS, inside and out, from one day to the next and one week to the next. Last Tuesday the Program Committee …

Spiraling Toward Our 120th Anniversary

CCS Principal Maylanne Maybee writes: A week ago a gathering of CCS Friends and neighbours met in the home of Ted and Janice Dodd–who often and generously host CCS parties …

CCS goes to General Council

Ann Naylor reflects on the 41st General Council of the UCC, August 11-18, 2012 “You are doing well, relatively speaking, but you need to muscle up because the hardest sprint …

On Developing Leadership and Moving House

CCS Principal Maylanne Maybee writes:This is the second week of my first LDM! Fourteen students signed up for the August course at Woodsworth House in Winnipeg: ten women, four men; …