Sept. 24, 1-4 p.m.
MTSO presents a Graduate Theological Education Discernment Retreat
Get away for an afternoon, a day, or several days. Make this retreat what you need it to be. MTSO offers participants free on-campus housing and will cover travel expenses.
Methodist Theological School in Ohio will host a Graduate Discernment Retreat lasting from one to three days for aspiring faith leaders. Participants will explore graduate theological education and discern its potential role in helping them to become change agents in their communities.
Guided discernment programming will take place Wednesday, Sept. 24, from 1 to 4 p.m. Eastern. Additionally, participants are invited to create a customized retreat according to their needs and availability beginning Monday, Sept. 22, through Thursday, Sept. 25. Options include arriving Monday evening, Tuesday or Wednesday and staying through Wednesday evening or Thursday morning.
This retreat is offered at no cost to participants within the United States. It will take place on the MTSO campus, 3081 Columbus Pike in Delaware, Ohio. Free on-campus housing is provided, and travel expenses will be covered.
Participants will have options of attending classes on Monday or Tuesday and are invited to attend MTSO’s annual Williams Institute lectures. This year, we welcome Gregory Cuéllar, professor in the Ruth A. Campbell Chair of Biblical Studies at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Cuéllar will draw on Lamentations 1 and 2 to discuss exile as postcolonial trauma and its relation to contemporary migrants and oppressed people, and the use of testimony as a postcolonial traumatic way of remembering.
The Graduate Discernment Retreat is part of MTSO’s project “Connecting Pathways: A Multi-Faceted Approach to Strengthen and Sustain Current and Future Faith Leaders,” funded through Lilly Endowment Inc.’s Pathways for Tomorrow Initiative.
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To begin the application process, please complete the form below, and we will be in touch with further details.