God's Mission is Communion: SSFM Retreat

God's Mission is Communion: SSFM Retreat

Stevenson School for Ministry will host an in-person retreat at Good Shepherd Retreat House. Collin Cornell, PhD, will guide the weekend along the theme of God's Mission is Communion. In lectures and workshops, we will explore the state of mission: how the Anglican Communion and the ecumenical churches discern what God is doing in the world and what Holy Scripture contributes to that conversation. We will especially consider mission defined in terms of divine repair—God’s work of reconciling, healing, emancipating—and mission defined according to communion, God’s will to draw close to creatures. The retreat will include the rhythms of the daily office, fellowship, meals together, and opportunities for rest.

This retreat offers the chance to pursue patterns of shared community living, learning, and prayer. All Retreat House rooms are reserved for the SSFM community. Please select which housing option you'd like in your registration process and note any dietary restrictions. More details on the room options can be found on the House website. Hotels are also nearby if you'd prefer to be a commuter participant with us.

The retreat costs go to support the SSFM offerings and the Good Shepherd Retreat House mission. Limited scholarship funds are available, please email [email protected].

Collin Cornell, Ph.D. teaches in Old Testament and missiological hermeneutics at Fuller’s Texas campus. His research includes the history of religions and biblical theology, including theology related to mission, race, colonialism, and ecology, and he welcomes inquiries from prospective students and scholarly collaborators in any of these areas.
As visiting faculty at the University of the South (Sewanee), Duke Divinity School, and Candler School of Theology, Dr. Cornell led introductory Old Testament and New Testament classes, instructed all three biblical languages, and developed electives and short courses from preaching to eco-theology. He also managed Sewanee’s Center for Religion and Environment, coordinated Sewanee’s Indigenous Engagement Initiative, and acted as academic dean of the Stevenson School for Ministry, a local formation school of the Episcopal Church.
Cornell is author of two books from Cambridge University Press: Divine Aggression in Psalms and Inscriptions (2021) and Monotheism and Divine Aggression (in production). He edited Divine Doppelgängers: YHWH’s Ancient Look-Alikes (2020), coedited a volume of essays by Brent A. Strawn, The Incomparable God: Readings in Biblical Theology (2023), and co-translated a book by the Dutch theologian and antifascist K. H. Miskotte, Biblical ABCs: The Basics of Christian Resistance (2021). His current projects explore Bible and mission and the religions of the Hellenistic Levant.

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