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Summer Institute

Registration Coming January 2010
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Deepen your practical faith.
Expand your Christian network.
Refresh your spirit.

May 31-June 5, 2010

Our summer institute cultivates a community of Christian worship, teaching and action, reflecting the vibrant spiritual, artistic, and entrepreneurial offerings of Duke University. We seek to stimulate your imagination, wrestle with practical problems, and equip you to continue a journey of faithfulness within a wider community.

The 2010 Summer Institute, led by world-class scholars and practitioners, will focus on one session for its five days: “The Ministry of Reconciliation in a Divided World,” with Duke’s Center for Reconciliation.

Benefits of Attending
  1. Deepen Your Practical Faith
    Our learning model delivers a rigorous approach to cultivating leaders’ values and skills. Duke bridges theological knowledge with the experience of leading practitioners. The result is a five-day series of in-depth workshops, case studies, and celebratory worship experiences.
  2. Expand Your Christian Network
    Learn, pray, and be renewed alongside a diverse group of participants who share a commitment to reconciliation, justice, and peace.
  3. Refresh Your Spirit
    Awake each day to a morning filled with prayer and teaching. Spend afternoons in the gardens and classrooms with theologians, poets, and leaders of innovative communities, wrestling with the big questions of the vocation of reconciliation. Close the day with an evening of encouragement, performances, song, and prayer.
Testimonies from the 2009 Institute:
“Shaping the Beloved Community in a Divided World”
“I was energized by the Biblical teaching and theological reflection, enriched by the diversity of the participants and experienced faculty, and inspired to continue the journey as we celebrated the wonders of reconciliation and lamented the deep places of pain and division in our world.”
— Paula Fuller, Vice President and Director of Multiethnic Ministries, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship
"The Institute offered me the most important continuing education experience I have had in my 15 years of ministry…. I thank God for the experience.”
— Rev. Chip Edens, Pastor, Christ Church, Charlotte, N.C.

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