Spiritual Formation Resources

Spiritual Formation Resources

DVDs, CDs, and VCR tapes available at the offices of The School of Ministry to be checked out.

 **Send us an e-mail to request a resource, or call us at 336-273-5770.
 

from the Spiritual Formation Summit, 2002 Series (all VCR tapes)

  • “Living Our Lives as a Spiritual Practice”, by Joan Borysenko
  • “Contemplative Prayer and the Heart of Community”, by Thomas Keating
  • “A New World Needs a New Church”, by Alan Jones
  • “Setting the Stage: A Culture Scan”, by Phyllis Tickle
  • “Incarnation and Transformation in a New World”, by Desmond Tutu
  • “Reconciliation and Transformation”, by Desmond Tutu (VCR or DVD)
  • “Jesus’ Way of Healing”, by Walter and June Keener Wink

from the 27 th National Conference of Trinity Institute 1996: Jesus at 2000 (VCR tape)

  • “From Galilean Jew to the Face of God: The Pre-Easter and Post-Easter Jesus”, by Marcus J. Borg

 

from the 2007 Mollegen Forum at Virginia Theological Seminary.  (DVD)

  •  The Water of Life: the Earth’s Water Crisis was the theme, and features the Rt. Rev. Frank T. Griswold, former presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church; environmental author Fred Pearce (When the Rivers Run Dry); environmental attorney Martha Franks; the Rev. Canon Peter G. Kreitler, Episcopal priest and host of “Earth Talk” radio; and the Very Rev. Martha J. Horne, then dean and president of Virginia Seminary.

from  National Conference of the Trinity Institute, January 2008

  • Religion and Violence: Untangling the roots of conflict is the theme.  Webcasts will be hosted by the School of Ministry at various parishes around the diocese. Trinity Institute has provided a DVD with 20-minute interviews of the speakers, James Cone, Susannah Heschel, James Carroll, Tariq Raamadan, and Katherine Jefferts Schori. These pre-Institure conversations may be used for fall or Advent classes or small groups in your parish. There is also a leaders’ guide.

from Stories and Reflections on Peacebuilding from Africa (DVD)

  • "When you are the Peacebuilder"

from the Mennonite Central Committee (DVD)

  • "Not One Alone: Generations at Risk", The Church in Africa Responds to AIDS

from Metropolitan Arts for: Anglican Women's Empowerment and World Mission Sunday (DVD)

  • "Shall We Gather: Anglican Women Together"  

 

 
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 Conversations about a Theology of Partnership

 Companion links, as our diocese has with Costa Rica and Botswana, is just one expression of partnership, but it's an important one, and we drew from our partners, as well as from folk in our diocese, in producing our first DVD program, a four-part series: Conversations about a Theology of Partnership.    more....

 
Conversations about the Kingdom of God

How do we understand Jesus' many comments about the Kingdom of God?  We have variously interpreted Jesus' teachings as talking about the end of time or the transformation of the world, the "in-breaking" of the Kingdom. Here in this four-part series, released in August 2008, Bishop "Chip" Marble, Canon Michael Battle and EfM participants reflect on their understandings.    more....

The School of Ministry

at the Greensboro office
of the Episcopal Diocese of NC
1901 West Market Street 
Greensboro, NC  27455  
336-273-5770

The Rev. Dr. Leon Spencer, Dean; 
The Rt. Rev. Chip Marble, Assisting Bishop;      
Shelley Kappauf, Executive Admin. Asst.
and EfM Coordinator