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- Dr. Mitzi J. Smith Appointed J. Davison Philips Professor of New Testament
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- Columbia Seminary Receives Wabash Grant for “Exercising Our Faith” Project
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- David Bartlett, Distinguished Preacher and Scholar, Dies at 76
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- 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
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- Columbia “Science for Seminaries” Lecture to Feature NASA Scientist Mentioned in “Hidden Figures”
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- Abuelo… en cuarentena
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- PUPPETRY AND THE PANDEMIC
- A Heart Condition Worth Having!
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- Is God in charge? Talking Politics Part I
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- Can the Wisdom of the Past Speak to the Challenges of Today?
- Divine Partnership for Women of Color in Ministry
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- 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
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- 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
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- Leadership in Ministry Feature: Lance King
- The Awe of Pilgrimage!
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- Leadership in Ministry Feature: Julie Josund
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- Blooming in the Desert: The Ghost Ranch Pilgrimage Experience
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- 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
- Is my Sunday school class too big?
- An aid to coping with anxiety
- Clergy Self Care
- Emotional Integration in Organizations
- Leadership 101
- Why someone might not attend church
- Intelligent People
- Are you speaking the truth in love?
- How to be a Popular Leader
- Learning and Experience
- 7 Things to know about leadership
- How does transformation work in the church?
- Teachers, this is why planning is important
- What Will You Do?
- The Positive Listener Assessment
- Improvisation in Ministry: “Yes, and…”
- Self Care and Christian Educators
- The Validity of Prayer
- A Formation Approach to Continued Education
- Your Advice Isn’t Helping
- 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
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- A Non-Canonical Text Discovered!
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- What Church Educators Can Learn from Infomercials
- Thinking and Teaching
- Basic Rules for Planning Congregational Education Programs
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- The Leader and Imaginative Gridlock
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- 10 Perennial Principles About Learning
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- 12 Days to Becoming a Better Christian Teacher (online)
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- 2016 Smyth Lectures with Dr. Mark Allan Powell
- 2018 Kathleen O’ Connor Lectures
- 2019 Graduation Weekend Schedule
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- A Dwelling Place for God: Renewing an Earthly Spirituality
- AAAS “Science for Seminaries” Lecture: Dr. Tyrone Hayes
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- APPLICATION FOR COLLOQUY FOR CLERGY IN RURAL CHURCHES
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- Art Exhibit Lunch & Learn and Reception “Our Home Is the Holy Land”
- Articulating Our Mission, Role, and Value
- Back to the Text Annual Performance
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- Be Still and Know: A Contemplative Retreat
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- Benton Family Professor Inaugural Address
- Biblical and Theological Foundations
- Biblical Weavings Art Exhibit and Artist Reception
- Big Ideas in Youth Ministry Conference: Fearless Dialogues
- Blessed at the Broken Places
- Breathing Fresh Air: A Colloquy for Mid-Career Clergy (Bethany Fellows)
- Call to the Center: A Contemplative Prayer Experience (Online)
- Certificate in Spiritual Direction Application
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- Christian Education in the Smaller Church
- Christian Education in the Smaller Church (online)
- Christian Educator’s Think Tank
- Colloquy for Clergy in Rural Church Contexts Fall Session
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- Colloquy for Latino/a Clergy Fall Session
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- Colloquy for Mid-Career Clergy
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- Colloquy for Mid-Career Clergy: Session II
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- Columbia Theological Seminary APCE Lunch
- Come See Columbia Day 2019
- Community Forum on Human Origins
- Conference for AANATE (Association of Asian/North American Theological Educators)
- Conflict Transformation (Online)
- Contemporary Readings in Christian Education: Adult Religious Education Online
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- Contemporary Readings in Christian Education: Christian Formation
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- Creation and Connection: An Introduction to Celtic Christian Spirituality
- Creation through a New Lens
- DEADLINE FOR GUTHRIE SCHOLARS 2018 APPLICATION
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- Desert Spiritualities of the Southwest Pilgrimage
- Developing Lay Leaders
- Development
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- Devotional Writing
- Discerning Forgiveness
- Discernment in Spiritual Direction
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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
- Healthy Transitions Wellness Retreat for Ministers and Spouses
- Healthy Transitions: A Wellness Retreat for Ministers and Spouses
- Healthy Transitions: A Wellness Retreat for Ministers and Spouses
- 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
- Human Origins for Pastors
- Human Origins for Science Teachers
- Human Origins Forum with Bill Brown
- Human Origins Forum with the Smithsonian
- 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
- Incarnation: Theology, Tradition and Practice of Spiritual Direction
- Inclusive Leadership in a Diverse and Changing World (online)
- India Travel Seminar
- International Potluck Dinner
- 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
- Invitation to a Deeper Spiritual Life (Hybrid program)
- J.B. Green Inaugural Address
- Journey Toward Justice, PANAAWTM 34th Annual Conference
- Just Worship: Toward a Vibrant and Faithful Future
- Korean American Women Leadership Conference
- L’Arche Community Dinner
- Landscapes of Renewal: A High Desert Retreat
- Leadership in Ministry (online)
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- Leadership in Ministry Atlanta Session I
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- Marriage and the 21st Century Church
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- Mentor Coaching (TCI@CTS) Online
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- Money and Your Ministry
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- Opening Convocation 2018
- Pastoral Leadership and Emotional Intelligence
- PC(USA) NEXT Gathering
- Personnel and Leadership
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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
- Readings in Narrative Preaching (Online)
- Readings in Spiritual Classics
- Readings in Spiritual Classics: Four Saints, Four Centuries (Online)
- Reformed Theology and Confessions (online)
- reKindle: A Congregational Development Program
- Render Unto Caesar
- Resilience and Ministry: A Workshop by Laurie Ferguson for the Flint River Presbytery
- SAVE THE DATE! To Count Our Days: To Celebrate Our Stories
- Seeking God: An Invitation to a Deeper Spiritual Life (online)
- Seeking God: An Invitation to A Deeper Spiritual Life (online)
- Seven Concepts That Will Change Your Teaching
- Sharing Our Stories: Tools for Renewing the Body of Christ (online)
- Soul Tending: An Exploration of Spiritual Practices for Nourishment and Growth (Online)
- Spiritual Dimensions of the Enneagram
- Spiritual Direction in Context
- Spiritual Direction in Context
- 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)
- Storytelling as Tool for Change (Online)
- 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
- The Church and People with Intellectual Disabilities (online)
- The Church: A System of Relationships
- The Coaching Institute at Columbia Theological Seminary (TCI@CTS 2022 Cohort)
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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
- The Process of Aging and Implications for Ministry
- The Process of Aging and Implications for Ministry (Older Adult Ministry Course) online
- The Return of the Prodigal (Online)
- The Role of the Minister in a Dying Congregation
- The Role of the Minister in a Dying Congregation
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- The Sense of Wonder: An Online Day Retreat
- The Soul and the Breath
- Theological Reflection and Older Adult Ministry (online) (Older Adult Ministry Program Course)
- Theological Reflection and Older Adult Ministry: New Online Format!
- Theological Reflections and Affirmations in Older Adulthood
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- THRIVE (PCUSA Board of Pensions Retirement Planning Seminar)
- Thriving as a Church Ministry Associate (online)
- Understanding Congregations (online)
- Understanding Congregations: A Systems Perspective
- Understanding the New Testament (online)
- Wednesday Forum on Human Origins
- Welcoming Our Transgender and Non-Binary Neighbors
- What My Grandmothers Taught Me: Learning from the Women in Matthew’s Genealogy of Jesus (2021-2022 PW Horizons Bible Study Leader Seminar) (online)
- 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
- Your Spiritual Brain: Neurobiology and Faith
- Adams, Ann
- Adams, Jess
- Appleman, Anna
- Bailey, Julie
- Baum, Lucy
- Bettis, Cindy
- Bolton, Carmen
- Bowie, Alina
- Breed, Brennan
- Brown, William
- Brueggemann, Walter
- Campbell, Kelly
- Carroll, Jr., R.
- Chavez, Miguel
- Clarke, T. Erskine
- Cook, Betty
- Cox, Corie
- Craigmile, Bob
- Cuthbertson, Jennifer
- Daniel, Rita
- Dawson, Kathy
- Dewberry, Wendy
- Douglas, Mark
- Durham, Erica
- Erickson, Sarah
- Fletcher, Z
- Florence, Anna
- Galindo, Israel
- Gehman, Philip
- Ghosh, Tuli
- Gleason, Heidi
- Goggins, Chassidy M.
- Gonzalez, Catherine
- Greco, Vince
- Guyden, Rollin
- Harkins, III, John William
- Harris, Rylan
- Hartman, Tim
- Hecker, Brian
- Hix, Douglas
- Holmes, Chris
- Hong, Christine J.
- Huffine, David
- Jimenez-Abrams, Ruben
- Johnson, E. Elizabeth
- Johnson, Rhonda
- Johnson, Tammy
- Josund, Julie
- Keith, Jr., Jasper
- Knights, Carlene
- Krzic, Justyn
- Lawson, Khalfani
- Lewis, Isaiah
- Lingenfelter, Alvin
- Logeman, David
- Maxwell, Brandon
- McGarrah Sharp, Mindy
- Medford, Mike
- Mendenhall, Laura
- Moore-Keish, Martha
- Mullen, Deborah F.
- Murchison, Jr., D.
- Myers, Jacob
- Myers, Sara
- Nadella, Raj
- O’Connor, Kathleen
- Park, Sue Kim
- Patton, John
- Ramey, Robert
- Raynal, Charles
- Reeves Greenamyre, Caitlin
- Rich, Matt
- Ricks, Rev. Katie
- Riggs, Marcia
- Riviere, Alison
- Riviere, Mary Martha
- Sadler, J. Martin
- Sanders, Natarsha
- Sauls, Jody
- Saunders, Stanley
- Schoonover, Robert
- Sechrest, Love
- Smith, Dustin
- Smith, Mitzi J.
- Spurrier, Rebecca
- Stroup, George
- Thimas, Felicia
- Thomas, Gregory
- Thompson, Valrie
- Tribble, Sr., Jeffery
- Van Dyk, Leanne
- Vaughan, Jeff
- Walker-Barnes, Chanequa
- Ward, Haruko
- Watkins, Ralph
- Weary, Paul
- Weaver, Lisa M.
- Weir, Debra
- White, Sam
- Wiley, Charles
- Wishart-Christian, Karen
- Wren, Brian
- Yoder, Christine Roy
- Yoo, William
- ATA Spirituality and Sexuality
- ATA421 Family System in Context
- ATA434 Exploring the Field of Marriage and Family Therapy
- 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
- 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
- ATA485 Practicum: Individual Supervision
- ATA485S Summer Practicum
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- ATA487 Practicum: Case Conference
- ATA489 Directed Study
- ATA497 ThD Comprehensive Examinations
- ATA498 DMin Research
- ATA499 ThD Dissertation Research
- 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
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- I608: The Geography of Grace in Chaotic Space: Culture, Ritual, Mission
- I609 Readings in Spiritual Classics
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- I617 Cross-Cultural Ministry in the U.S.
- I618 Presbyterian History and Polity
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- I630 Bible and Theology
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- I699a Gospel Foolishness
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- Immersion Weekend
- Listening for the God Who Speaks
- Midday Reflections Course: Reading Letters
- Older Adult Ministry
- P131 Introduction to Christian Worship
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- P500 Introduction to Practical Theology
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- P514 Turnaround Congregations through Evangelism & Community
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- P526 Living History of Religious Education
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- P528 Faith Formation in a Media Culture
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- P602 Intercultural and Inter-religious Intelligences: Learning and Teaching a Posture of Openness
- P602S Christian Education in a Small Member Church
- P603 Evangelism via Storytelling and Multi-media Approaches
- P603 Faith and Formation: Christian Spirituality and Christian Education
- P604 Christian Practice for Congregations
- P604 Youth Ministry
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- P605 From Ministry to Mission & Mission to Ministry: The Externally Focused Church
- P605 The Spiritual Lives of Children
- P606 Camp/Conference Program and Administration
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- P607 Curriculum Planning & Evaluation in the Local Congregation
- P607A Technology and Christian Education
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- P608 The Embodied Word
- P608 Using Children’s & Adolescents’ Literature in Christian Faith Formation
- P609 Introduction to Recreation Ministry
- P609H Spirituality and the Arts
- P610 Exploring the Missional Church
- P611 Theology of Evangelism
- P612 Evangelism, Photography & Social Media
- P612 The Missional Practice of the Christian Life
- P613 Emerging Models of Church Life
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- P614 Future of Ministry: Being the Church in the 21st Century
- P614 The Spirituality of Engagement: Mission, Worship, and Action for Justice
- P615 Multiethnic Ministry in America
- P615 Theological Grounding and Development of the Virtual Church
- P615W Being Church in the Age of Social Media
- P616 Evangelism and Videography: Story as Witness and Outreach
- P616 Evangelism in Emerging Cultures
- P617 Paradigms in the Practice of Evangelism
- P617 Reaching Young Adults in the Digital and Media Age: Foundations of Young Adult Ministry
- P618 A Systems Approach to Congregational Leadership
- P618 Key Readings in Gospel and Culture
- P619 The Foundations of Evangelism
- P620 Pastoral Theology and Care in Film and Literature
- P620a The Pastor as Educator
- P620W Mindfulness and Self-Care for the Helping Professions
- P621 Death, Dying and Grief: Intergenerational and Intercultural Perspectives
- P622 Family Systems Theory for Ministry
- P622 Preschool Religious Education
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- P623 Foundations of Marriage and Family Therapy
- P623 Pastoral Care as a Public Practice
- P624 Introduction to Marriage and Family Care and Counseling Ministry
- P624M Listening Practicum
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- P625B Healthy Boundaries, Harmful Borders
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- P628 Pastoral Counseling in the Parish
- P628A Pastoral Care Across the Life Cycle
- P629 The Art and Practice of Theological Reflection
- P629W Couples, Families, and Cultural Change
- P630 Contemporary Homiletical Theories and Theologies
- P631 Post-Christian Proclamation: Seeking Resilience in God’s Changing World
- P632 Black Religious Leaders from the Civil Rights Era to the Present
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- P633 Advanced Pastoral Care Seminar
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- P634 Novel Preaching
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- P635 Preaching and Worship through the Christian Year
- P636 Preaching, Politics and the Pursuit of Justice
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- P639 Back to the Text: 1st and 2nd Kings
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- P674 Intercultural and Interfaith Pastoral Care and Counseling
- P675 Pastoral Care and Counseling Through Film
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- P680 The Preacher and the Poet
- P682 Prophetic, Imaginative Preaching for God’s Changing World
- P683 Ministry Through the Year
- P684 Conflict and the Work of the Gospel
- P685 Leadership as Word and Act
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- P688 Sacred Places as Community Assets
- P691 Worship and Preaching Through the Christian Year
- P692 Music, Liturgy, and Imagination
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- P711 Tangible Kingdom: Church Planting & Transformation
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- P733 Family Systems Theory for Ministry
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- P740 Liturgical Language for Today’s Church
- P743 Korean Worship and Preaching
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- P779/ATA496 DEdMin Doctoral Project
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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
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- 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
