CCS Fridays

Join us for an information-sharing and discussion session on best practices for holding a church annual meeting online using a platform like Zoom.

Join us for an online discussion of the ways in which the covid-19 pandemic exposes long-standing racial divisions and systemic injustices, and perhaps to imagine opportunities for change. Our special guest will be Kim Uyede-Kai

Join us for a celebration of diaconal heroes. CCS students present profiles of those who have walked the diaconal path before, and a conversation with 2021 Companion of the Centre, Anne Manikel.

Join us for an online discussion of "Unanswered Questions", Ray McGinnis' recent book (and accompanying study guide for churches) about the families of those killed in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Centre on Sept. 11, 2001, and their attempts to get answers from their government.

Join us for on Friday, December 10, for an online conversation with Natalie Wigg-Stevenson on her new book "Transgressive Devotion: Theology as Performance Art."

Join us on Friday, February 11, for an online discussion of learning from art and learning through art, and the process of telling historical stories in a contemporary way with artist Kellen Hatanaka.

An online conversation with Adele Halliday

Join us on Friday, October 28 at noon (Winnipeg time) for an online discussion of the processes of exclusion, marginalization, and structural inequality that are often unexamined in the church—what...

"Then two will be in the field; one will be taken and one will be left. Two women will be grinding meal together; one will be taken and one will...

What were the important learnings from the Lambeth Conference about relating and making decisions in a worldwide communion?

Our special guest, Min-Goo Kang, will tell his own story of finding his path to God through the lens of Taoism.

Personal finances for people of faith with Glenn Morison.

Join us on Friday, March 31, 2023 for an online discussion of addiction ministry with special guest Ed Treat.

Join us on Friday, October 27, 2023 at noon (Winnipeg time) for an online discussion of climate change and how to respond as faith-filled individuals and as ministers.

Join in on Friday, November 10, 2023 at noon Central Time for an online discussion of coping strategies for feelings of loneliness and isolation with special guest will be Tracy Fairfield

Join us on Friday, Dec 8 for an online discussion of youth and climate justice. Our special guest will be Amy Crawford, team leader for Faith Formation and Mission with the General Council of the United Church of Canada.

Social robots and therapeutic chatbots are already being used in mental health care and the implications this has for the future of pastoral and spiritual care. Who cares?

Join us for an online conversation about creating space where diversity and inclusion can truly grow.

How does creative practice connect to vocation?

Join us on October 25 (noon in Manitoba, 1pm in Ontario, 11am in Alberta, etc.) for an online conversation with members of the United Church's Indigenous/Racialized Youth Scholars Program