Upcoming Events
Join partners, friends, and colleagues for conversations, colloquiums, and conferences on topics that impact your House of Worship today.
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Adverse Childhood Experiences Among Religious Leaders
Boston University
Join Boston University School of Medicine's Eric Brown for an interactive gathering exploring the relationships between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), religious coping, and social support among religious leaders.
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Clergy Upskill: Reducing Political Violence in your House of Worship+
The Parsonage Project & UMC
This Parsonage Project webinar equips clergy to act as gatekeepers and allies to prevent radicalization and hate-fueled violence in their congregations and communities. Learn how to differentiate between healthy patriotism and the dangers of Christian nationalism. Learn effective strategies to address conspiracy thinking in your community, empower others to stand against radicalization and hate, and lead with courage, compassion, and faithfulness in times of conflict.
Peacemaking is a high calling and difficult work. Everyone is welcome. Training is taught in Christian perspective. Free.
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Reparations and
Truth-telling Summit+
Episcopal Racial Reconciliation
In the Episcopal Church, we are guided by the vision of Becoming Beloved Community, our church’s long-term commitment to racial justice, healing and reconciliation. We’re all on a lifelong journey toward God’s dream, taking intentional and faithful steps as if moving through a labyrinth.
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Eradicate Hate Global Summit
Eradicate Hate Global Summit
Join The Parsonage Project and fellow world leaders at the Eradicate Hate Global Summit. This summit is a unique, multidisciplinary forum to share ideas and build working relationships to drive the development and deployment of effective approaches to reduce hate-fueled violence. We are grateful to have you as part of this effort. October 21-23
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Caring for Brokeness
The Parsonage Project & Common Table Collaborative
Our ministries suffer when hospitality fails. Rev. Ribbons Harris will share theological resources and best practices for working with individuals (like retreats) and groups (congregational or judicatory level) by exploring the role of Christian hospitality in creating scalable models to care for brokenness and to heal division.
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CORE Conference on Trauma and Spirituality
Association of Theological Schools
By application; Join fellow ATS member school leaders for plenary sessions, small group discussions, and contemplative time focused on the impact of trauma among seminary students, and the formative responses schools of theology can use to build capacity for transformative action. Hosted by Fuller Theological Seminary, this event will promote intersectional resources in theology and behavioral science to support diversity in theological education, and is a continuation of the ATS webinar series, Trauma and Spirituality: Building Capacity among Theological Schools to be Agents of Transformation.
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Coping with the Pressures of Ministry
Common Table Collaborative
Join the University of Warwick's Leslie Francis and York St John University's Andrew Village for an interactive gathering exploring how clergy cope with stress and ministry. Why do some ministers experience burnout and others do not?
TBD
Clergy & Suicide Conference
The Parsonage Project & National Suicide Alliance
Join The Parsonage Project and the National Suicide Alliance as we address the issues related to faith, trauma, and suicide.