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- Doug Oldenburg, Seventh President of Columbia Theological Seminary, Dies at 85
- Historic Promotion of Dr. Ralph Basui Watkins to Full Professor
- Columbia Theological Seminary Commits to Repair the Breach Caused by White Supremacy
- A Message from Prof. Harkins
- Dr. James McDowell Richards, Columbia Seminary’s Longest Serving President
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- Columbia Theological Seminary Recognized with Green Seminary Certification
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- Dr. Rebecca Spurrier Awarded Vital Worship Grant for 2020 by Calvin Institute of Christian Worship
- Artist Ally Markotich featured at the Center for Lifelong Learning
- Columbia Theological Seminary Announces 2020 Alumni Awards
- Dr. Renita Weems to Give 2020 O’Connor Lectures
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- Thornwell and Wilson Papers Released by Seminary Archives
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- New Walker Presidential Scholarship to Make Seminary an Affordable Reality for PC(USA) Students
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- Columbia Theological Seminary Names David Huffine Vice President for Advancement
- PCUSA Co-Moderator to Speak at Columbia Seminary Convocation
- John Bulow Campbell Library Receives Competitive Digitization Service Grant
- Biblical Weavings Art Exhibit at Columbia Seminary
- Exhibit Exploring Human Origins to Open at Columbia Theological Seminary
- Columbia Seminary to Highlight Faculty and Alumnae at AJC Decatur Book Festival
- Columbia Student Chosen for FASPE Ethics Fellowship
- Harry Barrow: A Lifetime of Service to the Church and the World
- Graduates Celebrate at 2019 Commencement for Columbia Seminary
- Christine Roy Yoder Named First J. McDowell Richards Professor of Biblical Interpretation
- Raj Nadella Named Samuel A. Cartledge Associate Professor of New Testament
- Wonchul Shin Appointed Visiting Assistant Professor of Christian Ethics and Theology
- Anonymous Donor Gives Columbia Seminary $1M for Walker Presidential Scholarship
- Dr. Mitzi J. Smith Appointed J. Davison Philips Professor of New Testament
- Dr. Jeffery Tribble Sr. Appointed Associate Dean for Advanced Professional Studies
- Columbia Seminary Archives Acquires Papers of Emeritus Walter Brueggemann
- “Rising Tide” Comes to Atlanta on March 28
- Dr. Beth Johnson Retires
- Ella Mae Phelps Archives Collection on Display
- New Colloquies For Women of Color Clergy and Early Call CTS Alumni
- New Art Exhibit on Campus “Our Home Is The Holy Land”
- Foster Connors, Gehman to Receive 2019 Alumni Awards
- Author, Scholar, Preacher Dr. Frank Thomas to Give 2019 Smyth Lectures
- 2018 Admissions Progress: By the Numbers… and Infographics
- Quotes about Shirley Guthrie and Christian Doctrine
- 50 Years of Christian Doctrine
- President Leanne Van Dyk Responds to Recent Acts of Violence
- Artists, Leading Theologians, Legal Scholars, and Community Leaders to Explore Migration and Border Crossings in Multidisciplinary Conference
- “You Had to Be There”: Misadventures in Ministry
- Multi-seminary Sponsored Conference Explores Crossroads of Worship and Theological Justice
- The Coaching Institute Comes to Columbia Theological Seminary
- C. Benton Kline, Jr. Special Collections and Archives Releases Ormond Papers
- Lisa Weaver Named Assistant Professor of Worship
- Dean of Students Brandon Maxwell Promoted to Vice President for Student Affairs and Community Life
- Dr. Love Sechrest Named VP, Dean of Faculty
- Presbyterian Women Fund Joint Community Gardening Effort
- J. B. Green Papers on Display in Advance of Inaugural Address
- Dr. Gale Yee to Present 2018 Kathleen O’Connor Lectures
- Hartman Receives Louisville Institute Sabbatical Grant for Researchers
- Allen ’92 and Arnold ’66 Honored with 2018 Distinguished Service Awards
- New Colloquy Announced for Rural Churches and for Latino/a Clergy
- Columbia Seminary Receives Wabash Grant for “Exercising Our Faith” Project
- Columbia Seminary Receives Major Lilly Grant for Thriving in Ministry Initiative
- Center for Lifelong Learning Provides Online Certificate for Elders
- Atlanta Area Seminary Builds Relationships in Korea
- Columbia Theological Seminary Begins Certification with Green Seminary Initiative
- Columbia Seminary Explores Reformations Then and Now
- New Major Gifts Officer for Columbia Theological Seminary
- David Bartlett, Distinguished Preacher and Scholar, Dies at 76
- Sea Kayaking in the Bahamas: An Eco-Travel Seminar
- CLL Receives Lilly Grant to Serve Pastors in Crisis and Pastors Who Innovate
- CLL Receives Wabash Grant for Design of Classroom and Online Teaching Methods
- Mark Douglas Receives Nohria Grant for “War in a Warming World”
- Dawson and Moore-Keish Approved to Faculty Chairs at Columbia Seminary
- Alumnus Davis Hankins Wins 2017 Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise
- Center for Lifelong Learning Awarded “Science for Continuing Education for Pastors” Grant
- Seminary Announces New Grant for Community Garden, Expands Partnership with Global Growers Network
- “We Are Columbia” Exhibit Begins a Critical Conversation
- Columbia Seminary Faculty Contribute to “American Values, Religious Voices”
- Columbia “Science for Seminaries” Lecture to Feature NASA Scientist Mentioned in “Hidden Figures”
- Columbia Recognized Among “Seminaries that Change the World”
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- Christine Roy Yoder Named Interim Dean of Faculty
- Princeton Seminary Names Columbia Professor Emerita Kathleen O’Connor Distinguished Alumna
- Prof. Brennan Breed Wins 2016 Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise
- Calvin Theological Seminary Names Columbia President Leanne Van Dyk Distinguished Alumna
- New Focus for ThM Program at Columbia Seminary
- Inauguration Sermon: Welcome One Another
- A Prayer for Emanuel and Nine Who Lost Their Lives
- DMin Degree: Growing Pastors as Effective Leaders
- Kathy Dawson Honored; Unveils New Initiative
- Steve Hayner, 66, Seminary President and Interdenominational Leader
- PC(USA) Presidents: Affirming the Call for Racial Justice
- Columbia Establishes Kathleen O’Connor Lectures
- Columbia Theological Seminary Awarded One of Ten AAAS “Science for Seminaries” Grants
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- @ this point: theological investigations in church and culture
- Christine Roy Yoder Named Luce Scholar
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- What We Need Is Here: Practicing Resurrection in a Season of Social Distance
- “Don’t Forget About Us!” Ministry with People Isolated by Disability
- Moms in Ministry: An Inside Look Into Motherhood, Part 2
- Moms in Ministry: An Inside Look Into Motherhood, Part One
- The hardest lesson I’m grateful I learned: letting go
- The Spirituality of Dialogue
- 10 Books to Read with your Child
- Awareness for Communities of Faith: The Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Impact of COVID
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- Return of the Prodgical
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- “Let’s Pretend That Didn’t Happen”
- The Help You Never Knew You Needed
- Doodling with God: An Active Prayer
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- Hallelujahs in Hell
- I Believe in the Resurrection of the Body: An Appreciation
- Valuing our Kinfolk with Disabilities: Legislation and Heart Transformation
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- An Act of Unselfish Love
- And Jesus Wept: a good idea
- A Playful Perspective
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- Questions that Change Lives
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- Coaching: We’ve Come a Long Way From Kansas, Dorothy
- Caregiving and Ministry: A Shifting Balance
- Tips for Effective Preaching
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- The Body of Christ and Our Bodies
- Abuelo… en cuarentena
- Soul Tending: An Exploration of Practices for Spiritual Nourishment and Growth
- Depression and Ministry: When a Good Soul Feels Bad
- Pastors, their families and best practices
- The Story of Us
- PUPPETRY AND THE PANDEMIC
- A Heart Condition Worth Having!
- Reading: Options, Options, and Options
- Save Your Masks, and Your Stories
- Vulnerabilities and Politics, Talking Politics Part II
- Is God in charge? Talking Politics Part I
- 3 Ways to Ruin Your Child
- Henri Nouwen and Fun
- Spiritual Friendship and Formation: Spirituality Courses and Programs at CTS
- Can the Wisdom of the Past Speak to the Challenges of Today?
- Divine Partnership for Women of Color in Ministry
- The Transformative Power of Higher Education
- Lessons from the Wilderness for Such a Time
- Embrace the Challenge of Getting Older
- The Gift of Years: Living and Working as an Older Adult
- Let’s Talk About Butterflies
- Try Centering Prayer: Change. Anxiety. Fear… Freedom. Healing. Wholeness
- Embrace the Good
- Managing Stress: A Bowenian Perspective
- Imagination and Resilience: Your Keys to Success in Unusual Times
- Meet the Team: The Faces Behind the Center for Lifelong Learning
- Moving and Mourning: A Practical Theologian’s Values Matrix for Stressful Times Part 2
- Moving and Mourning: A Practical Theologian’s Values Matrix for Stressful Times Part 1
- Being Called to the Ordinary in These Extraordinary Times
- Reviving Lament in the Church
- A Latina Woman of Color in Ministry
- Narrating God
- Community and the Church: a look back with Rev. Charles Heyward
- A Time to Celebrate and Honor Caregivers
- Being a Neighbor to a Stranger
- Practicing Beloved Community
- Julian of Norwich: Pastoral Vision and Poetic Theology
- Creativity As A Catalyst of Healing
- A Call to Community from Dr. King
- Clergy Colloquies to Help Get You Out of Your Rut
- Beyond Words: Providing Spiritual Care Without Speaking
- Pastoral Excellence Programs for Mid-Career Clergy and Women of Color Announced
- A Christmas Eve Prayer
- The Great Cloud of Witnesses: Four Saints, Four Centuries
- Women of Color Clergy: The Colloquy Experience
- Thanksgiving Prayer
- What’s Worth Knowing: Insight for Caregivers and Those Being Cared For
- “Being is Doing”: Tools for Healing Adverse Childhood Experiences
- Older Adult Ministry Program Recognizes 3 New Graduates
- Moving Possibilities: Four Lessons from Moving More
- Fusion Retreat: The Art of Glass and Grace
- Spring 2020 Older Adult Ministry Courses Announced
- Montreat: A Place of Spiritual Awakening
- Grandparents in Ministry: Abuelo, Granddaddy, Grandfather
- Do Young People Want Church to be a Safe Place?
- 4 Reasons Why Online Learning Is Worth the Investment
- Ministry Coaching, The Way Ahead from Within
- Center for Lifelong Learning Spirituality Program Celebrates 25 Years!
- MINISTERING TO THE NEEDS OF OLDER ADULTS AND CAREGIVERS
- Coaches Help Leaders Mind Their “Ps and Qs”
- Discerning What’s What: Spirituality, Spirits, and the Holy Spirit
- Worship in the Womb? Exploring when and how children begin learning about faith
- Leadership in Ministry Feature: Vanessa Ellison
- Are You Ready for Change?
- Journaling Your Sacred Story
- What “They” Said
- Leadership in Ministry Feature: Lance King
- The Awe of Pilgrimage!
- 9 Types: Insights About the Enneagram
- Leadership in Ministry Feature: Julie Josund
- Enneagram: Application to Professional Life
- Listening for God: The Practice of Spiritual Direction
- Leadership in Ministry Feature: Carla Toenniessen
- Blooming in the Desert: The Ghost Ranch Pilgrimage Experience
- Leadership in Ministry Feature: Bill (William) Pyle
- The Ten Commandments: A New Look at an Old View
- Why Aren’t Things Changing?
- Women in Ministry: Sustaining Clergywomen Online and in Person Part 2
- Women in Ministry: Clergywomen Need Community Part 1
- February in Photos
- Life Illuminated: Finding Connections Between Imagery and Spirituality
- LIM Feature: Meg Hess
- Observations from a Woman of Color in Ministry
- New Colloquy Opportunity for Women of Color!
- The History of Black Worship
- Racial Profiling: This is us, but it doesn’t have to be
- Colloquy Opportunity for Early Call CTS Alumni Now Open!
- The Writer’s Block Antidote…It’s Not What You Think
- Congregational Health – Red, Green and “Black”?
- Grounded in Gratitude: The Benefits of Spiritual Formation
- A Layperson’s Guide to Practicing Gratitude
- A Prayer of Thanksgiving
- Be Virgil – A Coach as Companion on the Way
- We’re Wired for Story…What’s Yours?
- Landscapes of Renewal: How to Read and “See” the Bible
- All Shapes and Sizes: What Does Youth Ministry Look Like?
- Sacred Creation: The Celtic Way of Christian Spirituality
- How to Welcome Our Transgender and Non-Binary Neighbors in the Church
- How Coaching Improves Your Relationships and Results as Clergy
- What’s Your Number? How the Enneagram Helps You to Understand Yourself and Others
- Making Religious Communities Safe for LGBTQ Kids
- How Community Can Help You Move Through Pain and Experience Spiritual Awakening
- Magnificent and Marvelous: A Look Inside Older Adult Ministry
- Exploring the Spirituality of Hope: Is Hope More Than a “Feeling”?
- Ministry and Coaching: An Odd Mix or Needed Addition?
- Where Will God Dwell?
- Jessica Brown: Celtic Christianity and the gift of thresholds
- Just Worship: The Symbolism Behind Worship for All
- Online Learning: Convenient, Practical and Timely
- What’s Next for Worship? Worship that Equips Us for Justice
- Saying Yes to “Prayer Without Ceasing”
- The Promise After the Planting: Growing Faith on the Farm
- When Option A is not Available…
- Learning to Love the “Habit” of Prayer
- Join the Online Learning Community at The CLL
- The Beautiful – Traveling Exhibit
- Pastor as Pinball
- “How do I make sense of the way God engages with me?”
- In God’s Economy Small Is Not a Liability
- Procrastination, or Intentionally Delayed Planning?
- On Demanding a Surrendered Life
- Exploring God’s Promise: “I am with you”
- We Are More Alike than We Know
- Spirituality Program Participants Share: “What was most meaningful to you?”
- Older Adult Ministry Partnership in its Fourth Year
- God Listening Within Me? Really?
- The Seven Days of Retirement: Is It Really All It’s Cracked Up To Be?
- Moving Into a More Active Spiritual Life: the Spirituality Program
- Lunar New Year for All Ages
- Being Unconstructively in the Presence of the Sacred
- “My life is not this steep hour in which you see me hurrying so.”
- Altars in the World
- You Cannot Erase Light: Video Blogpost
- Why Our Christmas Greeting Cards Say “Happy Holidays”
- Praxis: Reflection, Practice, Transformation
- What if desire is essential to human flourishing?
- Old Molly and the Flipped Switch
- A Heart Full of Neart
- A Grand and Unusual Invitation!
- Our (Imaginary) Reformations Roundtable, and How We Ended Up Where We Are
- Five Practices to Lower Anxiety in the Current Political Climate
- Travel…with a Purpose
- Apply Now to Attend Jazz as a Metaphor for Ministry: The Power of Improvisation
- When Ordaining Women Is Still An Issue
- Trusting the Slow Work of God
- “What has our church been doing wrong?”
- “Yes, And . . .”—Wholehearted Guest, Rev. Marthame Sanders
- Discussing Church: Disability, Donuts, Faith, and Friendship
- Biblical Terror
- Fear, Clay, and Takeaways: Creative Persistence
- It’s All Part of the Pilgrimage
- Moving Prayer
- Beauty, Variety, and the Presence of God
- Discovering What You Need in the Storm
- Texts of Terror
- The Power of Written Conversation
- Meet Ally
- Ralph Watkins and Marthame Sanders connect art, inspiration and ministry
- If You Ask the Wrong Question You Will Always Get the Wrong Answer
- The Celts: the people “at the end of the world”
- Learning Together Apart: The Case for Online Learning
- Ministry to the “Living Saints”: Older Adult Ministry Certificate
- Celebrate World Labyrinth Day with the Spirituality Program
- Spirituality Program Participants Share: “What Brought You Here?”
- Yes, and… Discerning Nudgings
- Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something You
- How Devotionals Match Our Lives to God’s Story
- Pastoral Imagination and Emotional Intelligence
- Can’t Get Enough of Howard Thurman
- Why We Should Pay Attention to Brain Research
- Going to Church v. Being Church
- 1000 Under 25
- Presence, Listening and Depth: An Invitation to Spiritual Direction
- Seminary Is a Lot Like Holy Week
- God’s Beating Heart
- Offering A Little Extra
- You Have Gathered Us in a Divided Nation
- Blogging as a Spiritual Practice
- Why Seminary Still Matters
- Our Persistent God
- The Lamp is Not the Path
- Cross+Gen Worship: Where do I start?
- The Struggle is Real
- Keeping Sabbath With My Confirmation Class
- Beyond the Lock-in: Real Ministries Require Real Conversations
- The Struggle for Community – Whatever That Means
- Virtually the Same: On Start-ups, Spreadsheets and Service Books
- Stop Asking God For Direction
- Why Are We Still Doing This? Moving From Fragmented Formation to Engaged Discipleship: Part II
- Why Are We Still Doing This? Moving From Fragmented Formation to Engaged Discipleship: Part I
- The Relationships That Connect Us
- Jesus Didn’t Die to Perpetuate an Institution: The Mother of All Culture Shifts
- Saturday Night Service and Sunday Sabbath
- On the “Forever Young Urban Pastors” and coming to the Table
- Children Aren’t Disposable
- God of the Flood
- Updated Curriculum Charts
- What About the White Folks?
- Lent, Holy Week, Eastertide – and on to Pentecost
- It’s NOT a “Leap of Faith” … It’s just FAITH
- On Not Being the “Safe” One
- Faith and Politics: When Preaching Gets to Meddling
- Better Than Church? Exercise as a Spiritual Experience
- Preaching that Makes Faith Leap
- Leadership Lessons from Leadership Lessons
- Overcome, Embrace, and Imagine: Top Three Ideas for Rural Churches During Lent and Easter
- Those Aren’t the Flames of Pentecost: Quenching Spiritual Thirst
- Navigating the Complex and Beautiful Structures of Adult Formation
- Bookends
- Fa La La La La, Blah Blah Blah: Or How I Survived Advent. With Grace.
- Stuff Church Offers (That the World Needs Right Now)
- A Vulnerable Love: the Good News of Christmas
- Same Old Tune, Same New Song
- Facebook’s “On This Day” as a Spiritual Practice
- Downloading Advent
- Making Pastoral Care a Social Priority
- Breathing into Advent
- There’s an APP for that!
- Making News from the Pews: Congregations and Community Organizing
- A Testimony for Testimony
- Practicing Theology Without a Net: Theology Pubs, Spiritual Direction, and Letting Go
- When a Hurting World Comes to a Table of Broken Pieces
- About That Time My Child Very Nearly Lit the Church on Fire
- Four Pressing Needs in Rural Communities, and How the Church Should Respond
- What You Don’t Know About What They Don’t Know: A Little Reorienting
- The Church as Ethical Conversation Partner?
- Respecting the Voices of People with Intellectual Disabilities
- Three Reasons to Love Asking People to Give
- Through the Roof – Friends, Jesus, and Surprises
- A Model for Loving our Political Enemy
- Just Try a Few Things
- On Pastoral Identity: A Theology of Jeans
- 9 Things I Learned About Being a Young Adult in Ministry
- Unintentional Detours, Porous Boundaries, and Curiosity
- Preaching the People’s Lectionary
- Spiritual Formation: An Expression of Self-Care
- Resource Round Up
- Closing Our Own Churches
- Grace Abounding in the Crumbs
- Liturgical Gimmicks (or why you maybe should not wear red on Pentecost)
- Lack of Curiosity Might Be a Sin
- Journey from Isolation to Community
- Parents and Youth Leaders, That Problem You Worry Most About? Try This.
- Metaphors: Sources of Hope, Healing, and Insight
- Preach This, Tweet That (Part II): The iHomiletic™ How-to Guide
- Preach This, Tweet That (Part I): What Black Millennials are Looking for from the Preacher
- What I’m Learning Outside the Church Bubble: Day Three
- What I’m Learning Outside the Church Bubble: Day Two
- What I’m Learning Outside the Church Bubble: Day One
- No Perfect Age, No Secret Formulas in Youth Ministry
- When Churches Want a Pastor Who Can “Bring In Young Families”
- Certification Program for Outdoor Ministry Specialists
- New! CLL Certificate Program Trains Spiritual Directors
- Ashes for Action
- Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you Lectio Divina?
- Communal Worship with Seasonal Structure
- Confessing the Stories that Keep Us Isolated From Each Other, From God
- Pastoral Leadership and Social Media
- Recalculating the Routes: Journey of Changing Attitudes
- Collaboration and the Small Church Pastor
- Everyone Hates “Before” Pictures
- Being in Prayer
- Opening the Heart to Something New
- Resources for 21st Century Lifelong Learners
- The Balancing Act
- Get Understanding
- Post-COVID Prognostication
- I still remember the hurt
- The Formula for Successful Learning: Retention
- Losing a Job, Finding a Calling
- What are the elements to effective instruction?
- Deep thinking, powerful ideas
- 15 Common Sense Practices for Pastoral Ministry
- Thriving Congregations Part 2: Characteristics of a Thriving Congregation
- Thriving Congregations. Part 1: Challenges to Becoming and Sustaining A Thriving Congregation
- Ministry is a team sport: Advice from a ministry veteran
- How you know you’ve had an effective learning experience
- Augustine of Hippo and Six educational principles
- Help your church members grow spiritually this year
- The Theory of Instruction
- Don’t buy church curriculum
- How to be a good host for presenters
- CHURCH SIZE AND CHRISTIAN EDUCATION
- For the Bookshelf: Exploring Spirituality, An Ecumencial Reader
- Implement prayer into your teaching
- Creating Courses That “Kill”
- Keep your learners attention with these eight ways
- Humans and Their Brains
- Perennial Principles About Learning You Should Know
- Help students understand the “point” you’re making with this
- For the Bookshelf: It Takes More than Love
- Show us your moves
- Unfortunately, learning is not an outcome of teaching
- Self defeating behaviors in leaders
- Love Those Classics
- Knowing When To Fold ‘Em: The Plight of Second Chair Leaders
- The Spiritual Roles of the Christian Teacher
- What you should know about Effective Learning groups
- What are the basic functions of a congregational educator?
- The biological bases for seeking faith
- Forget everything you know about teaching…it’s wrong
- Five Common Responses to Anxiety
- What’s in a Name? Education for Formation?
- Learning through Constructivism
- Leading from the Right Side of the Brain
- The Opposite of Faith is Certitude
- Two Dilemmas Facing Churches Today
- Assessing Christian Education in the Church
- Thinking is easy (or is it?)
- For some the “New Normal” is just catching up
- Fixing the Problem of Sunday School
- Goals vs. Magical Thinking
- Ministry in an Age of Incivility
- How to Avoid Choice Overload
- Leadership in Ministry Faculty Coaches Marcuson and Josund Share Insights About Clergy Responses to COVID-19 Part 2
- On ANTS and Your Mental Health
- People Need a Narrative: Clergy and COVID-19
- Leadership in Ministry Faculty Coaches Lamkin and Maccini Share Insights About Clergy Responses to COVID-19 Part 1
- A Healing Experience for Clergy
- 10 Things Every Church Educator Needs to Know
- So, What’s Your Story?
- The Number 1 Cause of Clergy-Congregation Conflict May Not be What You Think
- Overcoming obstacles to change
- What Effective Church Educators Do
- Have you found the key?
- Motivation and Learning
- Design for Clergy Lifelong Learning
- Teaching for Faith
- Eight Ways to Kill an Organization
- How To Take A Stand
- Creativity Blockers in Organizations
- Physics for Leaders
- The effects of a pastoral forced termination on a congregation
- Christian Education: Values or Content?
- Traits of a well-defined leader
- Finding a great children’s minister
- The First Qualification of a Leader
- Two Theories of Learning
- Using Conversation in Teaching and Learning
- A Leadership in Ministry Q&A
- Functioning At Your Best as Leader
- Understanding the Difficult Parishioner
- The 15 Most Common Anxiety Triggers in a Congregation
- The Box Story
- Spiritual Leadership During Turbulent Times
- How Do You Measure Success?
- Triangle Games
- Do Not Judge
- Leaving Well
- Use Entry Points to Help Students Get Into the Lesson
- Learning is not an outcome of Teaching
- Nine Things I Learned About Leadership (So Far)
- Common Sense in Pastoral Leadership
- Questioning Change: The Leader as Change Agent
- Connectional Leadership and the Self
- Shedding Light in the Dark Night of a Forced Termination
- Changing Others, Changing Self
- Everything Takes Five Years
- On Knowing What You Are Actually Doing
- Helping and Ministering At End-of-Life
- For the Bookshelf: Introduction to the Devout Life
- It Only Takes a Few of Them
- Breaking out of Gridlock
- Reframing Leadership
- The Theory of Hype
- Four Systems Traps When Starting at a New Ministry
- Can You Pass This Educational Test?
- Phrases You Should Never Use Around Church Members
- Three Cheers for the Unheralded
- How People Learn
- How One Person Learned to Deal With Triangles
- Have You Found the Key?
- When the Honeymoon is Over
- What Clergy Don’t Talk About
- How Do Good Educators Become Good?
- Four Proven Strategies to Prevent Leadership Failure
- The Phone Call I Enjoy
- Ten Leadership Quotes from Edwin Friedman
- Education is Getting from Here to There
- Ten Toxic Leadership Types
- Active Learning
- Why Leaders Fail
- Nine Works on Moral Development
- The Third Spiritual Alphabet
- Your Congregation Is Not Your Family
- A Spirituality Reading List for 2019
- Effective Leaders Focus on Process
- For the Bookshelf: On Prayer—Conversation with God
- 5 Must Read Posts by Dr. G
- A Leader’s Responsibility
- For the Bookshelf: The Complete Fenelon
- Planning and Organizing for Christian Education Formation
- The Middle of the Story (and hurrying up to catch up)
- The Burnout Cycle
- Why Bowen Theory is Useless
- Steps to Developing New Programs in Your Church
- Why I Do This Work Called Bowen Theory
- For the Bookshelf: The Spiritual Guide
- Like a First Born
- For the Bookshelf: The Interior Castle
- The “Window of Tolerance”: A Tool For Self-Regulation
- Size Mattters, But Not Like You May Think
- When We Can’t Take Our Own Advice
- For the Bookshelf: The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius
- Chaos Results When Small, Vocal Minority is Allowed to Rule
- 15 Most Common Anxiety Triggers in Congregations
- For the Bookshelf: True Christianity
- An Interview With Cody Sanders About Ministry With LGBTQIA Youth
- For the Bookshelf: The Labyrinth of the World
- Maybe the Problem is With You
- Church Conflict Can Take On A Life Of Its Own
- For the Bookshelf: The Scale of Perfection
- Thriving in Ministry
- Could Emotional Intelligence Have Kept Me From A Forced Termination?
- A Non-Canonical Text Discovered!
- Healthy Transitions Wellness Retreat for Ministers and Spouses
- For the Bookshelf: The Imitation of Christ
- Is There A Rulebook On Forced Terminations?
- For the Bookshelf: Revelations of Divine Love
- Don’t Waste Your Pain
- Get Out of Your Rut: Novelty, Reflection, Learning and Leadership
- Forced Terminations and Ethics
- Small But Unlimited
- Three Challenges Every Ministry Associate Faces
- Termination Hurts More Than Just the Minister
- Three Outreach Ideas for Rural Churches
- Why Do So Many Remain Silent During Church Conflicts?
- Rural Churches as Sacred Spaces
- Spouses Too Are Casualties in Church Conflicts
- The Hidden Power of Multigenerational Transmission
- It Can Happen to You
- It’s About Formation, Not Schooling
- Rejection Hurts, But Joy Comes in the Morning
- 10 Commandments for Clergy Leaders
- Why You Can’t Fix Some Church Committees
- Old Dogs, New Tricks, and Learning
- Unraveling Wicked Problems
- Why You Need a Christian Education Leadership Team in Your Church
- Questioning Change
- Anxiety and the Myth of Security
- Sabbatical as Fitting Room—Part 2
- Fostering Change Workshop February 15-16, 2018
- The Sabbatical as Fitting Room—Part 1
- The Myth of Competence
- Learning has a lot in common with eating
- An Aesthetic Distinctly Religious
- Distributive Leadership
- Choosing Principles over Relationships
- The Rebellious Pillow: A Story
- Leadership Lessons from Baboons
- Helping Children Deal With Grief
- Courageous Leaders
- When They Circle the Wagons…Draw a Triangle!
- A Church and Its Culture
- Ghost Hunters and Exorcists
- Learning the Theory
- How to Deal With a Wall
- Best Procedure for Teaching Facts
- Role vs. Function: Which do you most focus on?
- What May Congregations Look Like?
- 3 More Persistent Myths About Leadership
- 4 Persistent Myths About Leadership
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- APPLICATION FOR COLLOQUY FOR CLERGY IN RURAL CHURCHES
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- Biblical Weavings Art Exhibit and Artist Reception
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- Call to the Center: A Contemplative Prayer Experience (Online)
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- Christian Education in the Smaller Church
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- Christian Educator’s Think Tank
- Colloquy for Clergy in Rural Church Contexts Fall Session
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- Columbia Theological Seminary APCE Lunch
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- Contemporary Readings in Christian Education: Adult Religious Education Online
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- Creation and Connection: An Introduction to Celtic Christian Spirituality
- DEADLINE FOR GUTHRIE SCHOLARS 2018 APPLICATION
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- Desert Spiritualities of the Southwest Pilgrimage
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- Discover Columbia
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- Enneagram: Personality and Spirituality
- Ensouling our Lives: The Gospel of Love according to Julian of Norwich
- Evangelism and Social Justice (Thompson Scholars 2017)
- Fall Convocation 2020
- First Friday Lecture Series – Ecclesiastes: Living Your Best Life in a Time of Crisis
- Fit to Serve: Making Seminaries Models of Health and Wholeness
- Flint River V: Coaching Skills for Pastoral Leadership: A Workshop by Laurie Ferguson for the Flint River Presbytery
- Flint River VII: Cultivating a Missional Imagination
- Forum: AAAS Lecture–Are we Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
- Forum: AAAS Lecture-Redeeming Sin? Social Diagnostics amidst Ecological Destruction
- Forum: Commemoration of the Japanese American Internment
- Forum: On Their Shoulders and With the Church
- Forum: Shoe-Strings for Abundant Life–Voices from Congo Speak Out for their Voiceless Sisters
- Fostering Personal Change
- Getting in Shape Fiscally (PCUSA Board of Pensions Financial Planning Seminar)
- Getting in Shape Fiscally (PCUSA Board of Pensions Financial Planning Seminar)
- Getting In Shape Fiscally (PCUSA Board of Pensions Financial Planning Seminar)
- God’s Promise: I Am With You (2018-19 Horizons Bible Study Leader Preparation Course)
- Governance and Ministry: The Art of Cultivating Staff-Board Partnerships
- Growing in Discernment: Attuning our Spiritual Senses
- Growing Into Tomorrow, Today
- Growing Into Tomorrow…Today (Board of Pensions Retirement Planning Seminar)
- Growing Into Tomorrow…Today (Board of Pensions Retirement Planning Seminar)
- Growing Into Tomorrow…Today (PCUSA Board of Pensions Retirement Planning Seminar)
- Guthrie Scholars 2016
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- Healthy Transitions Wellness Retreat
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- Healthy Transitions: A Wellness Retreat for Ministers and Spouses
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- Henri J.M. Nouwen: Be Still! Be Loved! Be Grateful! Three Imperatives of the Spiritual Life
- Hidden in Plain Sight: Storytelling for Learning and Transformation
- History of Western Christian Spirituality
- Holy Land Pilgrimage
- Holy Wells and Thin Places: Exploring Celtic Spirituality
- Homecoming ’20 Alumni Reunion
- Human Origins for Christian Educators
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- Human Origins Forum with Bill Brown
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- Illuminating the Text
- Immersion Experience: An Invitation to a Deeper Spiritual Life
- Immersion Experience: An Invitation to a Deeper Spiritual Life
- Immersion Experience: An Invitation to a Deeper Spiritual Life
- In Life and In Death: Helping in End of Life Issues and Challenges (online)
- In Life and in Death: Helping in End-of-Life Issues
- In Life and in Death: Helping in End-of-Life Issues and Challenges (Online)
- Incarnation: Theology, Tradition and Practice of Spiritual Direction
- Inclusive Leadership in a Diverse and Changing World (online)
- India Travel Seminar
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- Into the Light: Finding Hope Through Prayers of Lament (2020-21 PW/Horizons Bible Study Seminar) Online
- Invitation to a Deeper Spiritual Life
- Invitation to a Deeper Spiritual Life
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- J.B. Green Inaugural Address
- Journey Toward Justice, PANAAWTM 34th Annual Conference
- Just Worship: Toward a Vibrant and Faithful Future
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- Landscapes of Renewal: A High Desert Retreat
- Leadership in Ministry A Lynchburg
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- Leadership in Ministry Atlanta
- Leadership in Ministry Atlanta Session I
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- Living Prayer: The Spirituality of Everyday Liturgy
- Love Carved in Stone: A Fresh Look at the Ten Commandments (2019-20 Horizon Bible Study Leader Seminar)
- Marriage and the 21st Century Church
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- Money and Your Ministry
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- Opening Convocation 2018
- Pastoral Leadership and Emotional Intelligence
- PC(USA) NEXT Gathering
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- Postponed: 2020 Graduation Weekend Schedule
- Postponed: Inauguration of Dr. Christine Roy Yoder, J. McDowell Richards Professor of Biblical Interpretation
- Practicing Sabbath
- Prayer: Deepening Your Experience with God
- Preaching the Verbs II
- Presbyterian Polity (Presbytery of the Wabash Valley Ruling Elder Training Program) online
- Program Design and Implementation
- Prophetic, Imaginative Preaching for God’s Changing World (online)
- Ralph C. Basui Watkins Inauguration
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- Readings in Spiritual Classics
- Readings in Spiritual Classics: Four Saints, Four Centuries (Online)
- Reformed Theology and Confessions (online)
- reKindle: A Congregational Development Program
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- SAVE THE DATE! To Count Our Days: To Celebrate Our Stories
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- Seven Concepts That Will Change Your Teaching
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- Soul Tending: An Exploration of Spiritual Practices for Nourishment and Growth (Online)
- Spiritual Dimensions of the Enneagram
- Spiritual Direction in Context
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- Spiritual Direction: An Introduction
- Spiritual Formation and Older Adults
- Spiritual Formation and Older Adults (Older Adult Ministry Certificate Program) (online)
- Spiritual Traditions of the Southwest Domestic Pilgrimage
- Spirituality of Marginality
- Spirituality, Spirits, and the Holy Spirit
- Stand-Up Preaching: What Comedians Can Teach Us About Sermonic Craft (online)
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- Take Steps for Peace: World Labyrinth Day Celebration
- Talking Politics During Polarized Times
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- TCI@CTS Mentor Coaching (Fall 2021) (online)
- Teaching and Preaching the “Forgotten” Books of the Bible (Online)
- Teaching for Transformation with Older Adults
- Teaching for Transformation with Older Adults
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- Teaching Spiritual Formation in the Congregation
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- Tell Me Your Story and I’ll Know Why I Should Come to Your Church (Thompson Scholars 2019)
- Tell Me Your Story and I’ll Know Why I Should Come to Your Church (Thompson Scholars 2019)
- Texts of Terror
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- The Church: A System of Relationships
- The Coaching Institute at Columbia Theological Seminary (TCI@CTS 2022 Cohort)
- The Coaching Institute at Columbia Theological Seminary (TCI@CTS)
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- The Crossroads Project: Rising Tide Performance
- The Disciple-Making Church: To Grow the Future We Visit the Past (Thompson Scholars 2021)
- The Enduring Spirituality of Howard Thurman
- The Enneagram and Accompaniment (online)
- The Evolution of Human Wisdom
- The Hidden Lives of Congregations (an online course)
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- The Humility of Christ: Power and Love in the Dance of Paradox
- The Life of Christ in Art and Poetry (online)
- The News & The Good News: the impact of ministry on journalism
- The Process of Aging and Implications for Ministry
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- The Return of the Prodigal (Online)
- The Role of the Minister in a Dying Congregation
- The Role of the Minister in a Dying Congregation
- The Role of the Minister in a Dying Congregation (online)
- The Sense of Wonder: An Online Day Retreat
- The Soul and the Breath
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- Theological Reflection and Older Adult Ministry: New Online Format!
- Theological Reflections and Affirmations in Older Adulthood
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- Thriving as a Church Ministry Associate (online)
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- Wednesday Forum on Human Origins
- Welcoming Our Transgender and Non-Binary Neighbors
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- Who Is Jesus? What a Difference a Lens Makes
- Wisdom and Wit of the Desert Fathers and Mothers
- Wisdom and Wit of the Desert Fathers and Mothers (online)
- Wisdom of the Christian Mystics (Online)
- Witness and the Divine Word: Jesus in Christian-Muslim Dialogue
- Writing Together in Creative Community: An Online Workshop
- Yes, And: Improvisational Leadership in Times of Dizzying Change
- Your Sacred Story: The Spiritual Practice of Journaling
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- Adams, Ann
- Adams, Jess
- Appleman, Anna
- Bailey, Julie
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- Campbell, Kelly
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- Chavez, Miguel
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- Hartman, Tim
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- Hong, Christine J.
- Huffine, David
- Jimenez-Abrams, Ruben
- John, Kim-Marie
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- Keith, Jr., Jasper
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- Murchison, Jr., D.
- Myers, Jacob
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- Rich, Matt
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- Riviere, Mary Martha
- Sadler, J. Martin
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- Sauls, Jody
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- ATA Spirituality and Sexuality
- ATA401f Church Planting and Transformation Introductory Seminar
- ATA421 Family System in Context
- ATA434 Exploring the Field of Marriage and Family Therapy
- ATA435 Ethics in Marriage and Family Therapy and Pastoral Counseling
- ATA437 Psychopathology for Pastoral Counseling
- ATA463 Pastoral Counseling in Historical and Global Dimensions
- ATA466 Pastoral Counseling with African American Men
- ATA467 Pastoral Care and Counseling Through Film
- ATA471 Theology and Personality
- ATA473 Pastoral Assessment, Healing, and Change
- ATA473 Theory and Practice of Pastoral Counseling
- ATA475 Pastoral Theological Methods
- ATA476 Evaluation and Treatment in Couples Therapy
- ATA477 From Object Relations to Relationality
- ATA478 Group Psychotherapy: Theory and Process
- ATA479 Family Development Through the Life Cycle
- ATA481 Pastoral Counseling Research Methods
- ATA484 Developing Intercultural Competence in Pastoral Counseling
- ATA485 Practicum: Individual Supervision
- ATA485S Summer Practicum
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- ATA489 Directed Study
- ATA497 ThD Comprehensive Examinations
- ATA498 DMin Research
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- B021 Essentials of Greek
- B141 Survey of the Old Testament
- B153 Exegesis of the New Testament
- B161 Survey of the New Testament
- B233 Exegesis of the Old Testament
- B501 Essentials of Greek
- B505 Introductory Biblical Hebrew
- B505S Introductory Biblical Hebrew
- B520 Old Testament Interpretation I
- B521 Old Testament Interpretation II
- B530 New Testament Interpretation
- B531 New Testament Interpretation II
- B540 Ruth, Jonah, and Esther: Hebrew-based Exegesis
- B540 Wisdom Literature: Hebrew-based Exegesis
- B541 Exodus: Hebrew-based Exegesis
- B542 Jeremiah
- B542 Text to Table: Methods in Old Testament Interpretation
- B543 Metaphors, Imagery, and the Prophetic Imagination: Hebrew-based Exegesis
- B547 Pentateuch, Prophets, and Psalms: Hebrew-based Exegesis
- B548 Deuteronomy: Hebrew-based Exegesis
- B549 Song of Songs: Hebrew-based Exegesis
- B550 The Ten Commandments
- B552 Genesis: Hebrew-based Exegesis
- B553 Eighth Century Prophets: Hebrew-based Exegesis
- B553 Galatians
- B553a Ephesians
- B554 Ezekiel: Hebrew‐based Exegesis
- B554 Joshua and Judges: Hebrew-based Exegesis
- B555 The Book of Daniel and Biblical Aramaic: Hebrew-based Exegesis
- B556 Poetry and Prophecy: Hebrew-based Exegesis
- B557 The Book of Kings: Hebrew-based Exegesis
- B558 The Psalms: Hebrew-based Exegesis
- B560 Philemon and Matthew: Greek-based Exegesis
- B561 Romans: Paul, Empire, and the Meaning of God
- B562 Mark and Method: Greek-based Exegesis
- B563 Luke and Method: Greek-based Exegesis
- B564 Parables: Greek-based Exegesis
- B566 Luke-Acts: Greek-Based Exegesis
- B567 First Thessalonians: Greek-based Exegesis
- B568 John: Greek-based Exegesis
- B569 Philippians and Luke: Greek-based Exegesis
- B570 Acts of the Apostles and Galatians: Greek-based Exegesis
- B571 Matthew: Greek-based Exegesis
- B572 First Corinthians: Greek-based Exegesis
- B573 Old Testament Interpretation and Theology
- B573 Revelation: Greek-based Exegesis
- B601 Proverbs: Wisdom for an Uncertain World
- B602 Texts of Terror
- B603 The Bible & Literary Theories
- B604 Contextual Interpretation: Maternal Eve in Cultural History
- B605 Genesis
- B606 Song of Songs
- B607 The Little Bible: The Book of Psalms
- B608 Ecclesiastes and Its Consequences
- B609 The Bible and Hermeneutics of Wonder
- B610 Dialogue, Diversity, and Transformation in the Old Testament
- B611 Images of Violence in the Old Testament and Ancient World
- B612 Lamentations and 2-Isaiah
- B612 The Covenant of Life: The Journey of God’s Communion in the Bible
- B613 Wrestling the Word: Old Testament Theology in Christian Faith and Practice
- B614 The Emergence of Yahwism
- B614 The Emergence of Yahwism
- B615 New Testament Spirituality & Congregational Minisitry
- B615 Old Testament Theology
- B616 Exodus
- B616 Women and the Old Testament
- B617 Intercultural Readings
- B617a Wisdom’s Wonder: Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes
- B618 Preaching the Eighth-Century Prophets
- B619 The New Testament & Economic Justice
- B621 Hebrew Reading
- B622 Creation, Eschatology and Ecology
- B623 Postcolonial Readings of the New Testament
- B624 Sustainable Church
- B625 Luke-Acts Seminar
- B627 Gospel Parables
- B628 Postcolonial Readings of the Gospels
- B628 The Gospel According to Matthew
- B629 Mark
- B630 The Bible and Visual Art
- B631 New Testament Spirituality
- B632 Intersectionality, Social (In)Justice and Womanist/Feminist Biblical Interpretation
- B632 Isaiah and Exile
- B632d Brief Introduction to Theology & Spirituality
- B633 Revelation, the Church and Politics
- B634 Jeremiah and the God Who Weeps
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- P528 Faith Formation in a Media Culture
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- P621 Death, Dying and Grief: Intergenerational and Intercultural Perspectives
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- P623 Foundations of Marriage and Family Therapy
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- The Face Is Familiar: Unnamed Women in Scripture
- The Face Is Familiar: Unnamed Women in Scripture
- “The Shaping of Things To Come?”
- “What, then is the Church?”: A Path Forward for Columbia Seminary and Its Slave Past
- “What, then, is the Church?”: A Womanist Biblical Scholar’s Response
- “What, then, is the Church?”: The Perpetuation of Racial Injustice and the Failure of Repair at Columbia Seminary in the Antebellum United States
- A Case Study on the Road to Repair: Princeton Theological Seminary
- A Commitment for Others to Eat
- A Grateful Reply
- A Grateful Response to the Essays on Resilience
- A Note from the Editor
- A Note from the Editor
- A Note From the Editor
- A Note from the Editor
- A Note From the Editor
- A Note From the Editor
- A Reflection on Sin and Pain
- A Response to an article by Matthew Richard Schlimm
- A Response to Capitalism, the Crash and Christianity
- A Set of Discussion Guides
- A Set of Discussion Guides
- Abiding in Love: Stories of Affliction, Resilience, and Hope
- About Us
- Annotated Bibliography
- Are CTS graduates complicit with those seductions?
- Assessing “Assessment:” A Reply to Responses
- Assessment Isn’t Rocket Science – It’s Brain Science!
- Author’s Reply
- Author’s Response
- Autobiographical Snapshots: A Story of Change in the PCUSA
- Becoming Creative and Relational in our Worship and Theology
- Being Different for the Sake of Not Being Traditional?
- Bordering Mysteries
- Breaking Out of a Box
- Bushels and Lampstands, Loose Lips and Martyrs
- Capitalism, the Crash, and Christianity
- Challenges, Callings, and Complications
- Civility and Friendship
- Civility as the Practice of R-E-S-P-E-C-T
- Common Waters Lessons
- Common Waters: Global water crises and Christian baptism
- Confrontational Secrets
- Confronting the Powers of Empire and Shaping of the Church
- Contact Us
- Creation in Community – Faith and the Environment
- Creation on the Cross: Resources for Action and Reflection
- Cultivating a Biblical Imagination
- Curriculum – Lesson Plan #1
- Curriculum – Lesson Plan #1
- Curriculum – Lesson Plan #2
- Curriculum – Lesson Plan #2
- Curriculum – Lesson Plan #3
- Curriculum – Lesson Plan #4
- Curriculum – Lesson Plan #4
- Curriculum – Lesson Plan #3
- Digital Natives, the Importance of the Nonverbal, and Niebuhr
- Displacement and Trauma
- Do Biblical Scholars Make Ideal Nomadologists?
- Edition Resources
- Edition Resources
- Editor’s Introduction
- Editor’s Introduction
- Editor’s Introduction
- Editor’s Introduction
- Editor’s Note
- Editor’s Note
- Editor’s Notes
- Editor’s Introduction
- Editor’s Introduction
- Editor’s Introduction
- Emilie M. Townes Reply
- Emotional Commitments
- Emotions and Faith: The Perplexing Relationship Between What We Feel and What We Believe
- Faith and Community in the Digital Age
- Faith and Facebook
- Faithful and Democratic Practices
- Familiar Seductions in Your Ministry
- Familiar Seductions Today
- Fear and the American Church
- Fear Seeking Understanding: The Problem and Promise of Theophobia
- Fear, Love and Discipleship: Learning from Colombia
- Feasting and Thanksgiving
- Finding Time: A Reply to Bill Harkins and Kathleen O’Connor
- Four Lesson Plans (from Rev. Katelyn Gordon)
- Four Lesson Plans (Rev. Katie Owen)
- Four Lesson Plans on Imagination – Lesson Plan #1: Imagining the Divine
- Four Lesson Plans on Imagination – Lesson Plan #2:Living This Imagination Life
- Four Lesson Plans on Imagination – Lesson Plan #3: Imagination in Scripture and Storytelling
- Four Lesson Plans on Imagination – Lesson Plan #4: Imagining church
- From Process to Main Event
- From This Point Onward
- From This Point Onward: Lesson Plans and Annotated Bibliography
- Further Thoughts on a Fear Born of Gratitude: A Reply to Brown, Taylor, and Ufford-Chase
- God’s Diet and the Retraining of Desire
- Going Green
- Gospel and Empire: “To Leave Our Land Is To Suffer”
- Hard Grief Work and Holy Saturday
- In Reply
- Individual Consumers versus Sacrificial Community
- Is a Prophetic Movement Emerging?
- Keeping Faith in a Fearful World
- Lesson Plans
- Lesson Plans
- Lesson Plans
- Lesson Plans
- Lesson Plans
- Lesson Plans and Annotated Bibliography
- Lesson Plans for “Empire”
- Lesson Plans for “Displacement and Trauma”
- Lesson Plans for Repair
- Living In-Between: A sermon for these times
- Living Water
- Meta
- Moderns, Post-moderns, and Imagination
- Monstrous Empires and the Kingdom of God: What Do Monsters Reveal about the Empire?
- Monstrous Empires and the Kingdom of God: What Do Monsters Reveal about the Empire?
- Moving from Christendom to a Global Church
- Note from the Editor
- Note from the Editor
- Note from the Editor
- Now What?
- On Being Conscious of What We Choose to Worship
- Paying attention to history
- Re/Use of Texts
- Real Food and the Eucharist
- Reclaiming the Covenant after Disaster
- Redefining Connectedness
- Reexamining Emotions: Further Thoughts on Faith and Feelings
- Reflections on Emotion and Faith: A Response to Matthew Richard Schlimm
- Rejoinder
- Reply
- Resisting Politics as Usual: Civility as Christian Witness
- Response to Bill Harkins’s “Transition, Resilience, and Fireweed”
- Response to The Respondents
- Rodger Nishioka Replies
- Sankofa and Synergy: Meeting Together as Women of Color
- Scripture as Fireweed Seed: A Response to Bill Harkins’s Transition, Resilience, and Fireweed
- Searching for Stars
- Shaping a Kingdom, not an Empire
- Shaping Children and Building Society
- Sharing Our Stories
- Shifting Cultures
- Sight Overwhelmed
- Sinners, all: The Universality of Sin as the Ground for Transformative Justice
- Subjunctive Theology
- Testing One, Two, Three
- The Complexity of Empires
- The Economic Crisis and the Church
- The Gospel: Just for Sinners or Just for the Sinned Against?
- The Life of the Text
- The Many-Sided Nature of the Text
- The Seductiveness of The Familiar
- The Shape and Shaping of Emotion
- The Ubiquitous Dogma and Practice of White Supremacy
- The Ubiquity of White Christian Silence and the Promise of Righteous Resistance
- The Value of Water
- Theological Investigations in Church and Culture
- This Imagination Life
- Tolerating Ambiguity in the Midst of Trauma
- Touchdown Jesus: On the Wages of Discipleship in America
- Toward A Deep Christian Ecology
- Training Desire in Proverbs
- Transition, Resilience, and Fireweed
- Visible, but not Perfect
- Water Flows for All
- Water for Alinglaplap; Visions of Water from Alinglaplap
- What Can Texts Do?: A Proposal for Biblical Studies
- What Is Political Civility When Politics Isn’t All Talk?
- What will it take to deconstruct white supremacy? Will a riot catalyze our hearts? Can a revolution transform our minds?
- What, then, is a seminary?: Examining the History and Legacy of Columbia Seminary with Hilary N. Green, Mitzi J. Smith, and John White
- When We Grow Our own
- Wisdom’s Wonder
- Women as Equals: the Need for Continuing Change
