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Institute for Christian Studies This page is meant to give alumni, students & supporters of ICS info about events, news & courses.

ICS is an accredited, member-supported graduate school with a biblically-rooted mandate to advance Christian Scholarship. Founded to pursue philosophy, the humanities and social sciences, ICS offers students Masters and Ph.D degree programs in several different areas of concentration.

In her latest reflection, Beth Green writes about the strange mix of anticipation and nerves that arrives with a new sch...
09/08/2026

In her latest reflection, Beth Green writes about the strange mix of anticipation and nerves that arrives with a new school year, and turns to Ray Bradbury’s Dandelion Wine for a way of thinking about memory, loss, and the passing of summer.

At ICS, that transition also means welcoming new students, beginning new courses, and making room for another season of learning together.

Read the full piece here: https://instituteforchristianstudies.substack.com/p/back-to-school-edition

In this new reflection on Wendell Berry, Matt Bonzo writes about loss, memory, work, community, and what it means to “pr...
09/04/2026

In this new reflection on Wendell Berry, Matt Bonzo writes about loss, memory, work, community, and what it means to “practice resurrection” after the communities we love have been fractured. Berry’s wisdom does not offer an escape into a simpler past. It asks us to remember what is good, resist what destroys people and places, and do the work at hand.

Read Matt’s full reflection here: https://instituteforchristianstudies.substack.com/p/the-long-way-home

What if healing is not a straight line, but a spiral?In a conversation with Héctor Acero Ferrer, philosopher and psychot...
08/28/2026

What if healing is not a straight line, but a spiral?

In a conversation with Héctor Acero Ferrer, philosopher and psychotherapist Jim Olthuis reflects on love as connection, the risk of relationship, trauma, and what he calls the “gift and call” of life. For Jim, healing means returning to what hurts without simply repeating it, learning to receive life as gift and respond to it in a new way.

The conversation offers a glimpse into Jim’s upcoming six-week Free to be Faithful course, Spirals of Love and Healing, beginning Tuesday, September 15, at 6:30 p.m. ET.

Read the full piece here: https://instituteforchristianstudies.substack.com/p/spirals-of-love-and-healing

We’re hiring an Academic Registrar!The Academic Registrar plays a central role in the life of the Institute for Christia...
08/26/2026

We’re hiring an Academic Registrar!

The Academic Registrar plays a central role in the life of the Institute for Christian Studies, stewarding the student journey from admission and registration through to graduation and helping ensure that students experience ICS as a welcoming, well-supported academic community.

If you’re an organized and collaborative administrator who cares about students and the work of higher education, we’d love to hear from you.

Read the full position description and application details:
https://www.icscanada.edu/about/employment-opportunities/academic-registrar

Please share with anyone in your networks who might be a good fit!

What might faithfulness look like amid personal wounds, authoritarian pressures, religious deconstruction, and political...
08/24/2026

What might faithfulness look like amid personal wounds, authoritarian pressures, religious deconstruction, and political uncertainty?

Join us this fall for one of four six-week online seminars exploring healing, resistance, hope, and the possibilities of faith:

• Spirals of Love and Healing: Empathy, Re-stor(y)-ing, Re-connecting, Transforming
Jim Olthuis

• Keeping Faith Under Dictators: Lessons from 20th-Century Europe
Bruce Berglund

• “Broken Hallelujah”: Faith, Deconstruction, and Spirituality through Music
Angela Reitsma Bick

• “We Are Free to Change the World”: Hope, Resistance, and the Power of the Possible
Ron Kuipers

Now enrolling: https://f2bf.icscanada.edu/courses



What did faithfulness cost under Hi**er, Mussolini, and Stalin? And what does it cost now?This fall, Bruce Berglund teac...
08/17/2026

What did faithfulness cost under Hi**er, Mussolini, and Stalin? And what does it cost now?

This fall, Bruce Berglund teaches a new Free to be Faithful course on keeping faith under dictators. Six Wednesday evenings, online, starting September 16. For more info and to register:

https://f2bf.icscanada.edu/courses

Letting-in. Letting-go. Letting-out. Letting-transform.This fall Jim Olthuis teaches a Free to be Faithful course on the...
08/12/2026

Letting-in. Letting-go. Letting-out. Letting-transform.

This fall Jim Olthuis teaches a Free to be Faithful course on the spiral of love and healing. Six Tuesday evenings, online, starting September 15. For more info and to register visit: https://f2bf.icscanada.edu/courses

This fall, we invite you to take one of two fully online graduate courses for Christian educators:Cultivating Learning C...
08/11/2026

This fall, we invite you to take one of two fully online graduate courses for Christian educators:

Cultivating Learning Communities of Belonging with Dr. Edith van der Boom. Built for instructional leaders and administrators, this course explores how school and classroom cultures form, with attention to restorative practices, Indigenous perspectives, and the daily choices that shape whether every student belongs.

The Craft of Reflective Practice with Dr. Gideon Strauss. Through storytelling about your everyday working life and practical research skills, learn to examine, articulate, and improve your own work as an educator. Experience becomes insight.

You don't need to be a program student. Teachers taking a single course for professional development are exactly who these are for, and cohorts are kept small so there's room for real conversation.

Learn more and register: https://education.icscanada.edu/courses

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