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September 14, 2016 by Praxis

Finding Balance: A Campus Ministry Retreat

How do you find balance in your life between the demands of school, home, work, friends and family?  The Campus Ministry Collaborative will explore this question during its third annual retreat, to be held on the weekend of October 21-23, 2016 in Columbus.  To register, fill out the form below.

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June 7, 2016 by Jed Dearing

A Whisper of Something Else

By Anna Berger No one in the world knows you’re here, Atop this ridge with your rose-flushed face and the dirt smudges up and down your faintly aching legs, you are alone. But God is no one because God is the One and the world is God’s and there’s a whisper of something else in […]

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March 24, 2016 by Jane Gerdsen

Art of Hosting Training

Conversations matter. Powerful conversations lead to wise action. The Art of Hosting is a 2.5 day experiential learning retreat for leaders, learners, facilitators and anyone in organizations and communities wanting to create more meaningful dialogue and step more fully into participatory leadership, using several methodologies. Join Tom Brackett, Cheri Leonard, Jane Gerdsen and a remarkable […]

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March 1, 2016 by Praxis

Sing to the Lord a New Song! A Reflection on the Province V Gathering in Chicago

by Charlie Meszaros Recently, I attended the Prov V Young Adult Retreat in Chicago as both a former and potential future college student, and as a friend of Dr. Bob Padberg and Dr. Ellen O’Shaugnessy.  The theme was “Sing to the Lord a New Song”, something that very much interested me, as I am somewhat […]

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January 6, 2016 by Praxis

Communities of Discovery

What Improv taught us about the spiritual life while we were at the Young Adult Retreat “Isn’t improv hard?” My wife asked me at breakfast, after I’d been waxing poetic about the 2015 Young Adult retreat, where my friends Barbara Allen and Bill Sabo led us in exploring the spirituality of improvisation. “Not really,” I […]

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December 22, 2015 by Praxis

2016 Provincial Gathering in Chicago!

Sing to the Lord a new song!  Music has always been integral to the spiritual life, and to worship in particular.  In recent years, campus ministries have been at the forefront of experimenting with music, creating music, and leading the church in singing a new song. When Amy McCreath was the chaplain at MIT, she […]

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October 29, 2015 by Karl Stevens

Considering the Lilies

Students from the Edge House were singing as we hiked into Conkle’s Hollow. Sandstone cliffs rose up on either side, striated by the lapping waves of an ocean that disappeared millennia ago. Thin trees clung to them, and when the wind blew yellow leaves shook loose and scattered like the rain that was occasionally falling. […]

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September 9, 2015 by Karl Stevens

Register for the “Consider the Lilies” Campus Ministry Retreat

Is it possible to set aside anxiety in an anxious world, particularly during a time of life when the future looms large and every choice we make might effect that future for good or ill?  Much of our anxiety is merited, and we can hear Jesus’s call not to be anxious as too simplistic or, […]

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May 29, 2015 by Aaron Wright

Triangle: Faith, Family and Friends

I nearly froze when she said we were going to watch “The Antwone Fischer Story.” I thought to myself, “The f@!* I am! I already watched that, lived that, and it’s not worth repeating.” As Mary Laymon, our facilitator, would go on to explain, my anxiety was high and I felt out of control because […]

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December 22, 2014 by Praxis

Fully Alive: An Improv Retreat!

A retreat in Chicago, February 20-22nd. To learn more, go to fullyaliveretreat.tumblr.com In his book, Improvisation: The Drama of Christian Ethics, Samuel Wells defines improvisation in the theater as “a practice through which actors seek to develop trust in themselves and one another in order that they may conduct unscripted dramas without fear.” Sounds a lot like […]
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