Workshops
Develop your research and writing skills for a lifetime of learning and ministry
Seminary Writing: Toolkit and Refresher
- B111 (map)
- Google Calendar ICS
This ministry lunch will introduce new students to the library’s writing helps and guides, and present a brief plan for writing research papers for those who could benefit from a refresher.
B111
Past Workshops
Heather R. Sparkman (M.Div, 2008; MA, Lindenwood University, 2021) will present learnings from her recent MA thesis exploring biblical principles that help church staff, non-professional volunteers, and members engage with and use social media in positive, constructive ways. Rather than starting from a place of fear, we should understand our purpose and place in the digital landscape, just as we do in other forms of media, proceeding with wise, informed confidence.
Buswell 111
Sermons, Bible lessons, exegetical papers, devotions… The Bible is central to seminary and to ministry, so let’s explore how to find great resources for studying God’s Word. How do I pick the best biblical commentaries? How do I find journal articles on a passage? This workshop will equip you to use the key resources.
This workshop is offered in connection with Covenant Theology, but is open to all.
Founders 342
Sermons, Bible lessons, exegetical papers, devotions… The Bible is central to seminary and to ministry, so let’s explore how to find great resources for studying God’s Word. How do I pick the best biblical commentaries? How do I find journal articles on a passage? This workshop will equip you to use the key resources.
This workshop is offered in connection with Covenant Theology, but is open to all.
Founders 342
Whether you are graduating in a couple weeks, or graduated long ago, come learn what Library resources are available to alumni and how to access them from wherever you are.
Online via Zoom
Sermons, Bible lessons, exegetical papers, devotions… The Bible is central to seminary and to ministry, so let’s explore how to find great resources for studying God’s Word. How do I pick the best biblical commentaries? How do I find journal articles on a passage? This workshop will equip you to use the key resources.
This workshop is offered in connection with Covenant Theology, but is open to all.
Founders 342
Sermons, Bible lessons, exegetical papers, devotions… The Bible is central to seminary and to ministry, so let’s explore how to find great resources for studying God’s Word. How do I pick the best biblical commentaries? How do I find journal articles on a passage? This workshop will equip you to use the key resources.
This workshop is offered in connection with Covenant Theology, but is open to all.
Founders 342
The Scribe Conversation Series welcomes Rev. Dr. Eric Stiller (CTS M.Div., D.Min.) to discuss his D.Min. dissertation topic.
One of the biggest challenges to preaching the Christian faith in the modern West is a growing inability to make sense of the basic categories that comprise a Christian worldview. Drawing on the work of Charles Taylor, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and others, Eric's dissertation explores how preachers engage the imagination during sermons to help people in the closed or open immanent frame shift to an open transcendent frame.
Buswell 111
Zotero is a free software tool that tracks your research and automates the construction of citations and bibliographies. Come learn how to build a Zotero library, manage your sources, insert citations, and avoid common pitfalls.
Buswell 111 or Livestream
Join The Scribe Writing Center for a conversation about the role of technology in ministry. Livestreaming, video posts, and podcasts can be effective tools for outreach and accessibility, but how does the loss of physical presence change the nature of ministry? How do we think through the role of technological mediation in our ministry contexts?
Classroom B111 or Livestream
Bring your own lunch and hear the experiences, insights, and lessons learned by Christine Gordon, author/co-founder of the At His Feet Bible Study Series. This is an event in the Scribe Conversation Series, which facilitates community dialogue around using reading and writing habits and practices as aids to our spiritual formation.
Buswell 111 & Livestream
Sermons, Bible lessons, exegetical papers, devotions… The Bible is central to seminary and to ministry, so let’s explore how to find great resources for studying God’s Word. How do I pick the best biblical commentaries? How do I find journal articles on a passage? This workshop will equip you to use the key resources.
Sermons, Bible lessons, exegetical papers, devotions… The Bible is central to seminary and to ministry, so let’s explore how to find great resources for studying God’s Word. How do I pick the best biblical commentaries? How do I find journal articles on a passage? This workshop will equip you to use the key resources.
Founders 341
Quick Tricks | Doctoral dissertations can be valuable resources for your research or for investigating graduate programs. However, they don’t always pop up when searching in a library catalog or database. Come learn some strategies for finding open access dissertations and see the high quality scholarship that is freely available online.
Classroom B122
Sermons, Bible lessons, exegetical papers, devotions… The Bible is central to seminary and to ministry, so let’s explore how to find great resources for studying God’s Word. How do I pick the best biblical commentaries? How do I find journal articles on a passage? This workshop will equip you to use the key resources.
Founders 342
Sermons, Bible lessons, exegetical papers, devotions… The Bible is central to seminary and to ministry, so let’s explore how to find great resources for studying God’s Word. How do I pick the best biblical commentaries? How do I find journal articles on a passage? This workshop will equip you to use the key resources.
Quick Tricks | The Tait Rare Book Collection houses over 1,000 works from as far back as 1540. The primary focus of the collection is English Puritan works from the 17th and 18th centuries. The collection also contains many works and sermons from early Reformers and others since the Reformation. Come get a tour of the collection and see some examples of the books it contains.
Tait Rare Book Room (lower floor)
Quick Tricks | Although the Movable Stacks—our motorized compact shleving units—generally contain “low use” material, there are some unique and interesting resources stored there that are worth knowing about. Come learn what treasures lie within and be reassured that you will not be crushed!
Classroom B122
Quick Tricks | You’ve engaged with the biblical text and now you’re ready to see what the commentators have to say. Many of the most important commentaries are available in the Reference section, so come learn how to navigate the shelves like a pro! Find out how the commentaries are organized and how to locate the best sources to aid your exegesis.
Meet in Classroom B122
Zotero is a free software tool that tracks your research and automates the construction of citations and bibliographies. Come learn how to build a Zotero library, manage your sources, insert citations, and avoid common pitfalls.
Classroom B111 or Livestream
Quick Tricks | The Library’s reference collection can help you get a solid start on any research project. The online reference resources allow you to get started on your research anywhere, anytime. Learn about these key resources and how they can help you with your next research assignment.
Classroom B122
Quick Tricks | The Library staff spent the summer creating some new research guides to help you discover important and interesting resources. Come learn about these new guides and how they can help your research.
Classroom B122
Most people never read poetry, even though the Bible and church services are filled with it. In this talk, Wash U. English professor and Carver Project Executive Director Abram Van Engen will explain why church-goers (and ministry leaders) should read poetry of all kinds regularly and what it can offer to our devotional lives. We will think through theology with poetry and ask what difference poetry makes to the way we do ministry. Lastly, we’ll take a look at a few simple ways to begin reading poetry and understanding it. Lunch provided.
Sermons, Bible lessons, exegetical papers, devotions… The Bible is central to seminary and to ministry, so let’s explore how to find great resources for studying God’s Word. How do I pick the best biblical commentaries? How do I find journal articles on a passage? This workshop will equip you to use the key resources.
Sermons, Bible lessons, exegetical papers, devotions… The Bible is central to seminary and to ministry, so let’s explore how to find great resources for studying God’s Word. How do I pick the best biblical commentaries? How do I find journal articles on a passage? This workshop will equip you to use the key resources.
You may know that peer-reviewed journal articles are an important part of the research process. But do you really know what “peer review” is? What difference does consulting peer-reviewed scholarship make to your own research? This workshop will help to improve the quality of your research projects through a better understanding of the production of scholarly sources. It could even help prepare you to publish your own work!
In seminary we are trained to analyze complex ideas and to engage them with precision and nuance and a vocabulary of specialized terms. Then, whether as parents, pastors, children’s ministers, or simply members of a church body, we have little children to disciple. How can we equip ourselves to communicate the Gospel to children? Join the Scribe Writing Center with guests Mark Dalbey, Marian Wandall, Carolanne Zink, and Dan Zink for a panel conversation and Q&A.
Zotero is a free software tool that tracks your research and automates the construction of citations and bibliographies. Come learn how to build a Zotero library, manage your sources, insert citations, and avoid common pitfalls.
Sermons, Bible lessons, exegetical papers, devotions… The Bible is central to seminary and to ministry, so let’s explore how to find great resources for studying God’s Word. How do I pick the best biblical commentaries? How do I find journal articles on a passage? This workshop will equip you to use the key resources.
Whether you are graduating in a couple weeks, or graduated long ago, come learn what Library resources are available to alumni and how to access them from wherever you are.
Join The Scribe Writing Center for an online conversation with CTS alumna Sarah Viggiano Wright. Teacher, speaker, counselor, and writer, Sarah recently published A Living Hope: A Study of 1 Peter and contributed to Co-Laborers, Co-Heirs: A Family Conversation, Christ in the Time of Corona, and Beneath the Cross of Jesus: Lenten Reflections. We’ll be talking with her about how writing became part of her ministry and how she has been challenged and grown by the experience. Do you expect writing and communication to be part of your ministry? Then this conversation is for you! The hour-long event will conclude with an audience Q&A.