A Lament for a Lack of Chocolate
We curse you fruit and vegetable lovers, you carriers of healthy snacks! How can you bring them before God?
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A Lament for the United Church of Canada
We worry about our denomination crumbling from within.
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A Lament from One Who Feels Far From God
I have no enemies but my own body. I am at war against a foe I cannot fight
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Loss, Lamentation, and Learning
Our regular diaconal ministry students have been joined this week by six people who wanted to engage the themes of loss and lamentation for their own continuing education.
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Worthy
You are precious, worthy to be loved.
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Video – Second Fridays – All My Relations
Video from October’s Second Friday with elder Peter Atkinson exploring the theme “All My Relations.”
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Human Rights Museum
Students found a trip to the newly open Human Rights Museum powerful, hopeful, and intense.
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Pastoral Care fall learning circle
The students in the Pastoral Care Year are meeting this month in Winnipeg for their Fall Learning Circle.
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Image of the Week – Path
exhausted after a day of hard climbing, looking for a way forward.
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Quebec City LDM moves to Peterborough
The CCS Leadership Development Module that was be held in Quebec City some time in January 2015 has been cancelled, but an LDM in Peterborough has just been announced.
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Image of the Week – Fire
The metaphor of fire suggests that the holy one heats and hones in an immersing love that transforms
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In the Field
It’s September. That means CCS staff are out visiting our students across the country for field placement orientations. This is Sparky, a fictional, totally made up CCS student preparing for diaconal ministry. Ted (somewhat less fictional CCS program staff) is visiting her in her home community of Oxter, Ontario. On a Saturday afternoon in September, Ted, Sparky,…
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Haverluck Book Offer
Three new storybooks by artist storyteller Bob Haverluck are available for purchase from the Centre for Christian Studies.
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Feast for Friends 2014
CCS was pleased to once again support the Feast for Friends gathering at the Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre in Beausejour on September 20, 2014.
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Wherever Two or Three Are Gathered
With only two students in the Integrating Year this year, the learning circle is not so much a circle as a line segment.
