Category Archives: Life Long Learning

May 12, 2013: Building & Viewing of the Sand Mandala of Compassion

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The Program for Life Long Learning at CRCDS is jointly sponsoring with the White Lotus Buddhist Center and Immanuel Baptist Church a series of interfaith events structured around the Tibetan Buddhist ritual of the Sand Mandala of Compassion.

All events are open to the public. Donations will be gratefully accepted. Two events require payment (see below).

All events will take place at Immanuel Baptist Church, 815 Park Avenue, Rochester, NY 14607.

Building the Sand Mandala of Compassion

WHEN: Sunday, May 12, 2013: 2:00 – 5:00 pm

Viewing of the Sand Mandala of Compassion

The Sand Mandala, once built, will remain on view at Immanuel Baptist Church for the following dates:

WHEN: Monday-Saturday, May 13 – 18, 2013: 10:00 am – 4:00 pm

RELATED EVENTS

Panel Discussion: “Compassion in Christianity and Buddhism”

WHEN: Tuesday, May 14: 7:00 – 9:00 pm

PANELISTS:

  • Drupon Thinley Ningpo, Founder, Drongyur Ling, Tampa Florida
  • Frank Howard, Director, White Lotus Buddhist Center
  • Rachel McGuire, Pastor, Immanuel Baptist Church
  • Fr. James Callan, Priest, Spiritus Christi Church

Prayer Session: “The Great Mantra of Tibet”

WHEN: Wednesday, May 15: 7:00 – 8:30 pm

Buddha of Compassion Empowerment

WHEN: Friday, May 17: 7:00 – 9:00 pm

COST: $35

Teaching on the Buddha of Compassion, by Drupon Thinley Ningpo

Founder of Drongyur Ling in Tampa, Florida, will give four teaching sessions. Each session costs $25.

  • Saturday, May 18: 10:00 am – 12:00 pm, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Interfaith Service and Ritual Dissolution of the Sand Mandala of Compassion

  • Sunday, May 19: 2:00 – 4:00 pm

 

3-Year Certificate Continuing Education Programs Now Accepting New Students

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Applications are now being accepted for the Three-year Certificate Continuing Education programs at CRCDS:

  • The Thurman King School for Black Church Leadership – Learn more>>
  • The School for Christian Leadership – Learn more>>

The Thurman King School of Black Church Leadership and the School for Christian Leadership programs are designed to prepare persons for various kinds of parish ministry, such as deacons and/or locally ordained priests in the Episcopal Church, Commissioned Lay Pastors, Lay Preachers or other designated titles.

Register for “Preaching the Verb”

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May 22, 2013: “Preaching the Verb”: A Day for Preachers with Dr. Anna Carter Florence

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9:00 am – 3:00 pm

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Preachers, pastors and lay church workers are invited to take advantage of this unique, one-day workshop on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 for developing a renewed relationship with how they preach.

Dr. Anna Carter Florence is the Peter Marshall Associate Professor of Preaching at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur Georgia. Dr. Florence is interested in historical, theological, aesthetic, and performative dimensions of preaching and the ways preaching engages other fields and different

This special event will be led by Dr. Anna Carter Florence, who is the Peter Marshall Associate Professor of Preaching at Columbia Theological Seminary (Decatur, Georgia).

Participants will be introduced to a deeper, wider understanding of preaching. Dr. Florence’s teaching focuses on exploring the historical, aesthetic and performative dimensions of the traditional rhetorical practice.

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“Preaching the Verb” is organized jointly by the Gene Bennett Program for Life Long Learning at CRCDS and the Presbytery of Genesee Valley (PGV).

Dr. Anna Carter Florence is the Peter Marshall Associate Professor of Preaching at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia. Dr. Florence is interested in historical, theological, aesthetic, and performative dimensions of preaching and the ways preaching engages other fields.

About “Preaching the Verbs”

If you do a quick survey of any bible passage, you’ll find that what is true in life is also true in scripture: the verbs dominate. Not adjectives; verbs. It’s what we do and don’t do that preoccupies human beings. And it’s the verbs we cannot imagine for ourselves (live, liberate, forgive, resurrect) that the church offers, and that we reach for, week after week. So what happens when we read scripture and let the verbs lead? In this conference, Dr. Florence puts a twist on dramatic theory and invites us to read the biblical “script” by focusing on the verbs that are given and chosen by the characters. What new things will we see and hear in both our sacred text and our human drama when we connect the verbs? How can that, in turn, change and renew our preaching?

If you have any questions, please email Colleen Fitzgibbons-Talarico or call (585) 340 9588.

Nov. 2-3, 2013: “Life Worth Living”: Faith in the World

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St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Rochester
The Episcopal Diocese of Rochester
The Gene Bennett Program for Life Long Learning
at Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School
welcome

m-volf-NOV-13-eventMiroslav Volf
Professor of Theology, Yale University

“Life Worth Living”: Faith in the World
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3 at 4 pm

Conversation with Miroslav Volf
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1:30-4:30 pm

Reservations for Saturday requested by Wednesday, October 31: Parish Office, 585-271-2240 or info@stpaulsec.org
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
25 Westminster Road, Rochester, NY
www.stpaulsec.org /585-271-2240

About Miroslav Volf

Miroslav Volf is the Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology at Yale University and the founding director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture. His books include Allah: A Christian Response (2011); A Public Faith: How Followers of Christ Should Serve the Common Good (2011); Captive to the Word of God (2010); Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace (2006), which was the Archbishop of Canterbury Lenten book for 2006; Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation (1996), a winner of the 2002 Grawemeyer Award and named by Christianity Today as one of one hundred most influential religious books of the twentieth century; and After Our Likeness: The Church as the Image of the Trinity (1998), winner of the Christianity Today book award. Professor Volf has been involved in international ecumenical dialogues (for instance, with the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity) and interfaith dialogues, and was a member of a Global Agenda Councils of WEF. A native of Croatia, he lectures in Europe, Asia and across North America. Professor Volf is a fellow of Berkeley College. B.A. Evandjeoski teološki fakultet, Zagreb; M.A. Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena; Dr.Theol., Dr.Theol.Habil. University of Tübingen. (Episcopal)