Workshops
Develop your research and writing skills for a lifetime of learning and ministry
Preaching to the Imagination in a Secular Age: A Conversation with Eric Stiller
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
Ministry in an Online World
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
Writing as Ministry: A Conversation with Alumna Author Christine Gordon
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
Communicating the Gospel with Children
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.
Writing as Ministry: A Scribe Conversation with Sarah Viggiano Wright
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.
Writing and Imposter Syndrome: Writing When You Feel You Don’t Belong
Join The Scribe Writing Center for a faculty panel discussion of insecurity and academic performance. This will be an opportunity to talk about how students may experience the challenges of seminary. Some may struggle with a lack of mentors and models of how a person like them approaches training for ministry, some may struggle with shame and feelings of inadequacy, and some may fear criticism as they pursue their studies. If this sounds familiar, this conversation is for you. Come to learn how to encourage one another and to be equipped to respond with wisdom when feelings of not belonging occur.
Reading and Writing During and After Seminary
Dr. David Chapman, Dr. Robbie Griggs, and Professor Jessie Swigart engage in a conversation moderated by Dr. Katie Kinney about the bread and butter of seminary education: reading and writing. What books have affected their lives? How does reading form us? What do you do when writing is difficult? What does reading and writing look like during and after seminary?
