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Programme logistics and preparations have been finalized. The curriculum and methodology booklet is complete; a prayer book has been printed and is ready for distribution to participants, and the curriculum reader, "Where Now for Visible Justice?” is now available online.
The institute organizers have also developed a web app that gathers the curriculum, the prayer book, and the practical handbook in one place.
The institute is a two-week residential program that will bring together 50 emerging Christian leaders from across Canada and the United States. Jointly organized by the Canadian Council of Churches and the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA, with the accompaniment of the World Council of Churches, the institute will take place in two cities shaped by migration, industrial transformation, racial history, and diverse faith communities, offering participants immediate and embodied engagement with the program’s themes.
Participants who have enrolled for academic credit will receive credit equivalence for the course Global Ecumenical Theology, awarded by the Toronto School of Theology, while all others will receive a certificate of attendance.
The curriculum will be divided into six thematic pillars: Climate Justice, Secularism and Laicity, Racism and Anti-Racism, Interfaith Dialogue, Solidarity with Indigenous Communities, and Wealth Disparity and Poverty.
As the curriculum readers describes in the Climate Justice section: “As two of the world’s economic superpowers, we will identify our individual and collective responsibilities to working on solutions to our ecological crisis, inspired by our shared Trinitarian faith, and discern effective ways to hold stakeholders in the public square accountable. We will address what it means to be a steward of the Earth and creation from a biblical foundation.”
