What's New at the School
First of all, we have a new look on this website!
We welcome suggestions for improvement as we begin to fine-tune it. We also want to include educational opportunities and resources of interest to people in our diocese, whether national, regional, diocesan, or local. Please contact us and share! Read More

 

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Traces of our Trade: A Program on Slavery in the Church, held at St. Matthew's Church in Hillsborough on September 6 was well attended, and a good success.  Pictured are Dean Spencer with Constance and Dain Perry, and The Rev. Brooks Graebner, of St. Matthew's.

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Education for Ministry
ATTENTION: EfM Mentors -- We are now accepting registrations for our 2009 training schedule.
If you are someone who is interested in EfM, go to the EfM drop down menu to find where groups can be found, and how to connect with a Mentor in your area. Let us know if there is any other way we can help Read More
Theological Reflections: Doing Theology
Shortly after the the School of Ministry began in July 2004, our Dean, the Rev. Dr. Leon Spencer, initiated this series of brief theological reflections entitled Doing theology.
Doing theology is issued bi-monthly. If you find them helpful feel free to share. Please, however, credit the source as the School of Ministry of the Diocese of North Carolina. Read More
Facilitators' Workshop
The School of Ministry is pleased to offer our first facilitators workshop for our new DVD series as well as for our print resource on Christian social ethics.
The workshops will take place at St. Andrew's Church in Greensboro on October 25 from 10:00 to 12:30 on the DVDs, and from 1:00 to 3:00 on ethics. Read More

  
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Dean's Sabbatical in India and Sri Lanka
Photo of Leon Spencer, right, with the Rev. Dr. A.W. Jebanesan, Principal, left and the Anglican Rev. Keerthi Fernando, chaplain, second from left, and other faculty, at th eTheological College of Lanka, in Pilimatalawa, Sri Lanka.       More...
Bishop Curry to lead SpringTide Retreat in 2009
Our own Bishop Michael Curry will lead our second retreat in 2009, on the theme The Sermon on the Mount.
SpringTide, 2009 dates will be from April 29 to May 1, 2009, and is located again at Trinity Center at Salter Path. Read More
School of Ministry Programs for 2008 - 2009
The School of Ministry will offer a series of strong programs this coming year, as well as providing continued support for parish resources in print and on DVDs.
September 23, 2008 - After our Faciltators' Workshops in October, we look once again to partner with the Trinity Institute in January, for their program on Radical Abundance: A Theology of Sustainability. Watch for more details. Read More
 
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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