About the Course
Praying the Psalms Together
Faith Nostbakken, https://faithnostbakken.ca/
Friday, May 1
10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. MDT
9:00 PDT / 10:00 MDT (includes SK) / 11:00 CDT / 12:00 EDT / 1:00 ADT
The Psalms form the oldest hymnbook for Jews and Christians alike. Jesus prayed the psalms, as did the early Christians, and these biblical hymns have been part of corporate worship and personal prayer ever since. Join this short retreat in which we will not only pray a psalm or two together, but learn about some of the patterns, rhythms, and themes of the Psalms as the raw and honest prayers of God’s people expressing everything from lament to praise. Our guides will include scripture/prayer scholars such as Walter Brueggemann and Eugene Peterson. We will also have the opportunity to craft our own psalms, to “pray with our pens,” discovering how to join our voices with the ancient voices of faith, and so to deepen our expression and experience of prayer.
Please note: a recording of this retreat will only be sent to those who are able to participate on May 1.
Photo credit: Photo by Brett Jordan on Unsplash
Your Instructor
Faith Nostbakken, PhD, DMin
Faith has been a spiritual director for over two decades and is part of the leadership team for the “Becoming Presence” faith formation and spiritual direction program through the Providence Renewal Centre (PRC, Edmonton, AB). She also co-leads the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises and offers other retreats and workshops through PRC and in other venues. Faith is an ordained deacon in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC), playing a role in various ecumenical endeavours locally, provincially, and nationally. The author of books on Shakespeare with a PhD in English Literature and a love of writing poetry, she currently teaches creative writing at King’s University and courses on writing, rhetoric, and literature at Newman Theological College (Edmonton). She has an MTS (Newman Theological College) and a DMin (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Saskatoon). Living most of her adult life with chronic illness—its own “school of learning”—she has deep empathy for the challenges others face and a deep passion for attending to the meaning that can emerge around or through those challenges.
You can learn more about Faith at https://faithnostbakken.ca/