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Peter Rollins at Bexley
Free Workshop this Sunday, February 19

On Sunday, February 19 from 3-5 pm at Bexley Hall, Peter Rollins will give a free workshop titled "Pyrotheology and the Faith Collective: Challenges and Opportunities for the Denominational Church."


Rollins is the author of author of The Orthodox Heretic, How (Not) to Speak of God, and Insurrection, and is a widely sought after writer, lecturer, storyteller and public speaker on emerging church theology. He is also the founder of ikon, a faith group that has gained an international reputation for blending live music, visual imagery, soundscapes, theatre, ritual and reflection to create what they call 'transformance art'.

  

A reception will follow the workshop. Spread the word and bring your friends!

 

Questions? Please email or call 614-231-3095.
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Leadership Workshop March 14 in Cleveland Heights 

 

The world of leadership studies is riddled with clich�s. Sharon Daloz Parks uses none of them. Rather, when the noted author and astute leadership consultant speaks, it is with a freshness that provokes a galvanizing examination of one's existing abilities and untapped potential.

 

"I really want to underscore that in a vertical world gone horizontal, we all have opportunities to practice leadership from wherever we sit," Parks said in a recent telephone interview. "In our time we need to be collectively smart as well as strategically smart. As Judy Brown has added, we also need to be spiritually smart."

  

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On March 14, Parks will lead a workshop, "Faithful Leadership for the Common Good," at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Cleveland Heights. Drawing on the insights of adaptive leadership author Ronald Heifetz and others, Parks will address what it means to practice and cultivate the arts of leadership.

 

The workshops, sponsored by Bexley Hall and Seabury, are open to everyone, including emerging or established leaders, the lay or ordained, and those working inside or out of the institutional church.

 

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When Mary Carson was growing up, she never entertained the idea of going to seminary or becoming a priest.

"In fact, as a teenager, that was the only thing I said I never would do," said the Rev. Mary Carson, a 1992 Master of Divinity graduate of Bexley. "One of the critical things to know is that my father was an ordained minister and went to Bexley (he received his master of divinity from Bexley Hall in Gambier), but that was not the reason I chose Bexley or the ministry."

Because of the great value she places on her Bexley education, Carson has named the seminary as one of the recipients of a planned gift in her will.

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