Category: News

Mamawe Ota Askihk – Sharing Life Together Here on Earth

Diaconal minister Karen Tjaden reflects on a week at the Sandy Saulteaux Spiritual Centre with Indigenous community leaders and settler allies to reclaim the homebred, the homespoken, the homegrown, and …

Ministry in listening, grief and loss

Program staff David Lappano shares thoughts about two fall learning circles. This October the Centre has offered two learning circles – Ministry as Listening and Grief and Loss. Students were …

Join us in Vancouver!

Join CCS principal Michelle Owens for an evening with ecumenical and international partners in diaconal ministry. The Central Committee of Diakonia of the Americas and the Caribbean, DOTAC, will be meeting …

Ministry as Listening

Above, students in the Ministry as Listening learning circle participate in a mirroring exercise. For the past week, seventeen students have gathered at Woodsworth House  to explore Ministry as Listening. …

Feast for friends

Indigenous people and settler people are invited to join  the Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre’s Feast for Friends for a day of learning, listening, sharing and feasting – all in the spirit …

Meet Michelle in Saskatoon

  You are invited to a Reception to meet Michelle Owens as she begins her role as the new Principal at the Centre for Christian Studies. 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. …

Praxis begins!

CCS staff person Scott Douglas reports on the first Praxis on-line gatherings. Praxis is a component of the new program structure. The Centre for Christian Studies held its first online …

CCS welcomes new staff!

When CCS embarked on a program review and redesign in 2015, there was no specific intent to roll out a newly designed program immediately. With the program staff team down …

A time of covenanting

God calls us to diaconal ministry.  The gospel of Jesus invites all to this ministry: to offer compassion and accompaniment, to work for liberation and justice, to act as advocates …

First circle of Integration Year

The Integration I Circle has just finished. The four students who are entering their Integration year have headed home; Melanie Ihmels & Tif McNaughton to British Colombia, and Catherine Underhill …

So long. Farewell!

It was a time of celebration and good-bye. Friends, colleagues, board members, Companions of the Centre, students, graduates and CCS staff past and present gathered on September 6 at St. …

2017 Learning on Purpose

Participants from across Canada gather for Learning on Purpose.

Highlights of World Diakonia

Reflections on the gathering of the Diakonia World Federation gathering in Chicago this summer.

Continuing Studies at the Centre for Christian Studies

You don’t have to be a diaconal ministry student to participate in a CCS learning circle.

Wishing Maylanne Well

Come wish Maylanne well on her retirement.