Duke Center for Reconciliation invites applications to summer institute

Applications are now being received for the 2010 Duke Divinity School Summer Institute, online at www.divinity.duke.edu/summerinstitute.   This summer’s Institute will focus on the theme “The Ministry of Reconciliation in a Divided World” and will be held from May 31 – June 5, 2010 on the campus of Duke Divinity School. The 2010 Summer Institute will create a community of learning among diverse peers and offer intimate interaction with a world-class faculty of scholars and practitioners. You will experience in-depth teaching, prayer and worship, shared meals, real-world contexts and challenges, and an opportunity to reflect on your own vocation and ministry setting.

This one-of-a-kind intensive Institute is designed to serve Christians engaged in grassroots ministries and social agencies, lay ministry within congregations and neighborhoods, pastoral ministry, community-building across divides in global contexts, university or seminary teaching and administration, parachurch ministries, social entrepreneurship or denominational leadership. We strongly encourage groups from communities, churches, ministries, and institutions to come together.

Every participant will be placed in an intensive week-long seminar cohort depending on their interest, with one or two faculty. These seminar cohorts will meet every afternoon for in-depth learning in community. Seminar cohorts for 2010 include:

  • Shaping Congregations for Faithfulness Across Divides with Alvin Sanders and Laura Truax
  • Jesus and Justice: Spiritual Formation in the Journey of Reconciliation with John Perkins and Chris Rice
  • Leading for Change within Complex Organizations with Peter Cha and L. Gregory Jones
  • Building Beloved Communities of Justice and Advocacy for the Poor with Mary Nelson and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
  • Social Conflict, Healing, and Mission in Global Contexts with Emmanuel Katongole
  • At Home with the Global Poor: Discovering Mutuality and Service in Mission with Chris and Phileena Heuertz
  • Land, Covenant, and the Gospel of Reconciliation with Ellen Davis and Norman Wirzba
  • Conversations on a New Racial Time with Bill Lamar
  • The Shaping Spirit of Reconciliation: The Arts and Reconciliation with Malcolm Guite
  • Medicine, Healing, Suffering and the Christian Community with Richard Payne and Allen Verhey

You can read testimonies from attendees of last summer’s Institute, listen to a sample of plenary sessions, and view course descriptions and faculty biographies for the 2010 Summer Institute at: www.divinity.duke.edu/summerinstitute.

The cost of the Institute is $1,045 (including all meals) plus housing (economical on-campus housing options are available.) Some scholarship funding is available.

No matter your level of experience with reconciliation work, you will find a place to learn and new companions for the journey. Come experience this five day in-depth learning session as an individual or with your team.

Applications are now being received for the 2010 Duke Divinity School Summer Institute, online at www.divinity.duke.edu/summerinstitute.

This summer’s Institute will focus on the theme “The Ministry of Reconciliation in a Divided World” and will be held from May 31 – June 5, 2010 on the campus of Duke Divinity School. The 2010 Summer Institute will create a community of learning among diverse peers and offer intimate interaction with a world-class faculty of scholars and practitioners.  You will experience in-depth teaching, prayer and worship, shared meals, real-world contexts and challenges, and an opportunity to reflect on your own vocation and ministry setting.

This one-of-a-kind intensive Institute is designed to serve Christians engaged in grassroots ministries and social agencies, lay ministry within congregations and neighborhoods, pastoral ministry, community-building across divides in global contexts, university or seminary teaching and administration, parachurch ministries, social entrepreneurship or denominational leadership. We strongly encourage groups from communities, churches, ministries, and institutions to come together.

Every participant will be placed in an intensive week-long seminar cohort depending on their interest, with one or two faculty.  These seminar cohorts will meet every afternoon for in-depth learning in community.  Seminar cohorts for 2010 include:

· Shaping Congregations for Faithfulness Across Divides with Alvin Sanders and Laura Truax

· Jesus and Justice: Spiritual Formation in the Journey of Reconciliation with John Perkins and Chris Rice

· Leading for Change within Complex Organizations with Peter Cha and L. Gregory Jones

· Building Beloved Communities of Justice and Advocacy for the Poor with Mary Nelson and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

· Social Conflict, Healing, and Mission in Global Contexts with Emmanuel Katongole

· At Home with the Global Poor: Discovering Mutuality and Service in Mission with Chris and Phileena Heuertz

· Land, Covenant, and the Gospel of Reconciliation with Ellen Davis and Norman Wirzba

· Conversations on a New Racial Time with Bill Lamar

· The Shaping Spirit of Reconciliation: The Arts and Reconciliation with Malcolm Guite

· Medicine, Healing, Suffering and the Christian Community with Richard Payne and Allen Verhey

You can read testimonies from attendees of last summer’s Institute, listen to a sample of plenary sessions, and view course descriptions and faculty biographies for the 2010 Summer Institute at:  www.divinity.duke.edu/summerinstitute.

The cost of the Institute is $1,045 (including all meals) plus housing (economical on-campus housing options are available.) Some scholarship funding is available.

No matter your level of experience with reconciliation work, you will find a place to learn and new companions for the journey. Come experience this five day in-depth learning session as an individual or with your team