CCS Friday – Rearranging Theological Imaginaries
OnlineJoin us for on Friday, December 10, for an online conversation with Natalie Wigg-Stevenson on her new book "Transgressive Devotion: Theology as Performance Art."
Farewell to Michelle Owens
OnlineJoin us online to say farewell to principal Michelle Owens as she leaves the Centre for Christian Studies to return to congregational ministry in Ontario.
Spiritual Practice 2022
OnlineAn online Spiritual Care learning circle on the history and diversity of Christian spiritual practices, private devotion and communal spirituality, discipleship, companioning.
CCS Friday – Painting Canadian Lives: Art and Education
OnlineJoin 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.
CCS Friday – Becoming an Anti-Racist Church
OnlineAn online conversation with Adele Halliday
CCS Annual General Meeting 2022
OnlineJoin us for our AGM. Thursday, March 17, 2022 at 6pm Central Time via Zoom. Please register so we know who to expect. Documents (click to view or download) AGM 2022 Agenda 2021 Annual Report 2021 Year Book 2021 AGM Minutes 2021 Audited Financial Statements 2022 Nominations Table for AGM
Relationships 2022
Woodsworth House 60 Maryland Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, CanadaAn intensive Spiritual Care learning circle on intimate and familial relationships, sexuality and gender, family systems, weddings, covenants, relationship break-ups, and the role of minister as support.
Power and Privilege 2022
Woodsworth House 60 Maryland Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, CanadaAn intensive Social Justice learning circle on social location, individual and systemic power, social analysis, and the role of the prophet.
Profiles in Prophetic Diakonia
OnlineJoin us for an online conversation about diaconal heroes and the role of the diaconate in social justice. CCS students in their final year of studies in the Diaconal Ministries program will share profiles of diaconal heroes, living and dead. In the second hour of the session, we'll have conversation with this year's Companion of …
Annual Service of Celebration 2022
OnlineJoin us for an online worship service as we celebrate our 2022 graduates of the Centre for Christian Studies and honour this year’s Companion of the Centre, Aileen Urquhart. The service will take place Sunday, April 3rd at 3pm Central Daylight Time, with a time for informal visiting to follow. Please click to register and receive …
Ages and Stages 2022
OnlineAn online Education and Worship learning circle on ministry with various age groups, development theory, curriculum, youth ministry, children’s ministry, adult education, ministry with seniors, and intergenerational ministry.
CCS Online Open House
OnlineSaturday, April 30, 2-3:30 pm (Central Daylight Time) Join us live on Zoom to get to know the Centre for Christian Studies community. It’s a chance to meet current program staff and students, learn about our programs, bursaries, and registration process, ask questions and meet new friends. Whether you're considering the diaconate, diaconal ministry, or …
Learning on Purpose 2022
Metropolitan United Chuch, London, ON 468 Wellington St, London, Ontario, CanadaOur two-week intro to learning in community.
Farewell Party for David Lappano
OnlineJoin us for a short gathering to wish David well as he prepares to leave CCS and follow his calling to priesthood in the Church of England.
Ministry as Community-building 2022
Woodsworth House 60 Maryland Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, CanadaOctober 12-18, 2022 will be Ministry as Community-building. Healthy community can be both the goal and the path to social justice. This week-long intensive will explore the challenges and the joys of community and the role of the church in creating and maintaining healthy and just communities.
Health, Pain, & Trauma 2022
Woodsworth House 60 Maryland Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, CanadaOctober 20-26, 2022 is Health, Pain, and Trauma. This week-long intensive will explore how to be present for people who are suffering, physically, emotionally, and spiritually, and how to support resilience through spiritual care.
CCS Friday – Getting Rid of “Us and Them” in the Church
OnlineJoin 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 we call othering—and actions that move towards a church of belonging where there is mutual power, access, and opportunity for all people who share the …
CCS Friday – Why First Advent Requires a Second Advent
Online"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 be left." - Matthew 24:40-41 Join us for an online discussion of Matthew 24 (lectionary reading for the first Sunday of Advent) on Friday, November …
Covenanting Service for Alan and Alcris
Westworth United Church 1750 Grosvenor Ave, Winnipeg, MB, CanadaJoin us in welcoming Alan Lai and Alcris Limongi to the Centre for Christian Studies staff
CCS Friday – Lambeth Learnings
OnlineWhat were the important learnings from the Lambeth Conference about relating and making decisions in a worldwide communion?
