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Continuing Education Newsletter - August 2019
Continuing Education at VTS offers non-degree courses, retreats, workshops and trainings to resource your ministry, both on campus and online.
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This summer, VTS launched exciting renovations of the Addison Academic Building and the Refectory, including Café 1823. Please note that classes have new locations such as the Gibbs Room or Goodwin Board Room. The Flamingo, our on-campus coffee shop and community hub, is now located in the Wilderness House (#1220 on the campus map). Stop by for coffee and conversation next time you are here!
The on campus, in person Continuing Education evening classes offered this fall include two four-week classes on Thursday evenings: Theatre and Theology and Prayer for All Seasons. Additionally, we have new online offerings: Hybrid Faith Formation (an eight-week offering on integrating digital technology with faith formation) and Re-imagining Adult Formation (a four-week offering led by our Christian Formation faculty and focused on reinvigorating adult Christian formation). Read below for all the details.
VTS has welcomed sixty new incoming students to our various degree programs: Masters of Divinity, Masters of Art, Anglican Studies and Pathway to Ministry program. The new Pathway academic program provides one tuition-free year of study to students still in a discernment process and offers beginning theological education to those determining their lay or ordained vocations. Yearning for more? This program may be for you.
In addition to classes, join us for panel conversations, readings with VTS authors, monthly webinars, and spiritual renewal. We look forward to seeing you – on campus or online, or both – this fall!
— Diane M. Wright, Senior Associate for Lifelong Learning
and Director, Continuing Education
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New: Enjoy 20% Off Campus Housing
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 Are you traveling from out of the area for a Lifelong Learning event? We are excited to announce that participants in Lifelong Learning programs are now eligible for 20% discounted rates for on campus housing (subject to availability). Come to VTS, enjoy a class, and time for rest and renewal. Email LifelongLearning@vts.edu to make arrangements.
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On Campus Evening Classes
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 Theater and Theology: Through the Lens of Shakespeare's Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2
Four Thursday evening classes, September 19 & 26, and October 3 & 10, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
$100 for all four classes, Click here to register
Join VTS Professor, The Rev. A. Katherine Grieb, Ph.D., and VTS staff member and Shakespearean actress/director, Mara Sherman, in a four-week examination of King Henry, Prince Hal, and of course, Falstaff. This class uses Shakespeare’s Henry IV Parts One and Two to examine rhetoric and power, with special focus on church and state, the qualities of a leader, vice and virtue, and the theology of war. The course will involve discussion about the two plays themselves, movie adaptations, and the Folger Theater’s fall performance of Part 1.
A Prayer for All Seasons: The Stations of the Cross in Advent, Lent, and Across the Year
Thursday evenings, October 24 & 31, and November 7 & 14, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
$100 for all four classes, Click here to register
The Stations of the Cross offer a pastoral and spiritual resource that can sustain us across all seasons. Drawing on material from a new book, Praying the Stations of the Cross by VTS faculty members The Rev. Katherine Sonderegger (Meade Professor of Systematic Theology) and Peggy Parker (Adjunct Instructor in Religion and Culture), the class will explore the Stations of the Cross in depth. Parker will discuss the pastoral, theological, and biblical foundations of the Stations, review their history, and offer suggestions for introducing, or renewing, the practice in our parishes. Sonderegger will lecture on the Stations in preaching, prayer, and theology. Designed with parish staff and clergy in mind, the course is also open to interested lay people and seminary students.
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 Hybrid Faith Formation Cohort
Tuesdays, September 17 through November 5, 2:00 p.m. EST (via Zoom)
$100, Click here to register
Wrestling with what it means to share and offer Christian formation in person as well as digitally? Sarah Stonesifer, Digital Missioner for Lifelong Learning, and Stacy Williams-Duncan, Interim Director of Digital Learning, will lead a Hybrid Faith Formation cohort this fall. Gather on Zoom, experiment with different platforms and formats for digital ministry, and develop plan and resources to implement hybrid faith formation in your community.
 Re-imagining Adult Formation Online Cohort
Four Wednesday afternoons, October 30 through November 20, 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. (via Zoom)
$150, Click here to register
Are you wrestling with how to offer effective Christian formation for adults in your faith community? What does the Great Commission mean in 2019?The VTS Christian Formation faculty (comprised of Dr. Lisa Kimball, Dr. Elizabeth DeGaynor and The Rev. Dr. Altagracia Pérez-Bullard) invite you to join the first online Adult Formation cohort gathering weekly via Zoom to build community, ask questions, and participate in discussions on effective Adult Formation.
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Reimagining Adult Formation:
Forming Disciples Called Out Into the World
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Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age. (Matthew 28:19-20)
What does the Great Commission mean in 2019? How do we offer effective Christian formation for adults in our faith communities? Two members of the VTS Christian Formation faculty, Dr. Lisa Kimball and The Rev. Dr. Altagracia Pérez-Bullard, hosted an engaging webinar with tips and practices to reimagine and reinvigorate adult formation.
Click on the image below to watch the 50-minute recording.
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Chronological List of Upcoming Events at VTS:
Click here for more information and to register for the Lifelong Learning and Seminary events below:
- 8/26/19 Seminary 101: An Introduction to Classes at VTS
- 8/26/19 The Standard Inscription of Ashurnasirpal II, King of Assyria
- 8/28/19 Intercultural Competency Course
- 9/17/19 Hybrid Faith Formation Online Cohort (8 weeks)
- 9/19/19 Theater and Theology: Shakespeare's Henry IV (4 weeks)
- 9/21/19 Jane Austen's Sense & Sensibility (Sat or Sun)
- 10/1/19 Poetics of Theology: Readings and Reflections with Dr. Robert Heaney
- 10/12/19 Spirituality Saturday: Hike and Pray
- 10/30/19 Re-imagining Adult Formation Online Cohort (4 weeks)
Webinars - Monthly at 3:00 p.m. EST
Click here to register for any/all Lifelong Learning Monthly Webinars:
- 9/12/19 The Art of Storytelling and Digital Storytelling
- 10/10/19 Keeping Rest Holy; Taking Sabbath Seriously
- 11/14/19 Innovation and Ministry
- 12/12/19 Reflections and Resources to Address Racial Justice in our Faith Communities
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