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Call of the Wild: Nature and American Religion

ML H415 3.00 Credits
Term Date: January 25 - May 7, 2021 Nicole Kirk Meets Thursdays 6-8 PM Central Time, every other week
In this course, we examine the natural world and its relationship to American religion through a selection of memoirs and autobiographies that take us to a variety of locations and periods. We will explore among other places the woods around Walden Pond…

Community Organizing and Ethical Leadership

M415 3.00 Credits
Term Date: January 25 - May 7, 2021 Elyse Ambrose Meets Tuesday Noon-2 PM Central Time, Feb 2 & 16, March 2, 16, & 30, Apr 13 & 27
Stories of social change are stories of communities, in various times and spaces harnessing their hopes, rage, intelligence, technologies, and skills - the power of their very selves - in pursuing a shared sense of the good. Grounded in stories of the…

Ecotheologies

ML E337INT 3.00 Credits
Term Date: January 25 - May 7, 2021 Mike Hogue Meets Wednesdays 6-9 PM Central Time, every other week
Religious leadership in the 21st century unfolds in a state of climate emergency, the most morally, spiritually, and politically fraught challenge the human species has ever faced. Climate emergency provokes profound theological, ethical, and political…

History of Global Christianity

H374INT 3.00 Credits
Term Date: January 25 - May 7, 2021 Nicole Kirk Meets Wednesdays 10 AM - Noon Central Time, every other week
This course surveys the development and adaptation of Christianity starting with the shocking death of a Jewish religious leader and what his followers did afterward. We consider the next generation of followers and teachers who took Jesus' message and…

Humanism Course III: Ethics and Aesthetics

HU413 3.00 Credits
Term Date: January 25 - May 7, 2021 Kevin Jagoe Meets Mondays 5-7 PM Central Time, every other week
Humanism is in essence both a personal and communal search for how to live a meaningful, purposeful life within a naturalistic understanding of reality. Humanists think that reason and community are the surest ways to determine individual and communal…

Introduction to Pastoral Ministry

M483INT 3.00 Credits
Term Date: January 25 - May 7, 2021 Julie Taylor Meets Wednesday 2-5 PM Central Time (may not meet every week)
We will explore some practices of pastoral care, in particular, and the vocation of pastoral ministry, considering the things that challenge us and the things that sustain us-including especially the Unitarian Universalist faith tradition which shapes…

Leadership Studies Seminar II

M429 3.00 Credits
Term Date: January 25 - May 7, 2021 Elias Ortega Meets Thursday 2-5 PM Central Time (may not meet every week)
The Leadership Studies Year provides students with the opportunity to learn the dynamics of leadership through the prism of guided work within a congregation. We will explore the following themes, among others: the dynamics of change; a public theology…

Ministry in Times of Crisis

M330 3.00 Credits
Term Date: January 25 - May 7, 2021 Julie Taylor Meets Tuesdays 2-5 PM Central Time (may not meet every week)
Faith leaders and communities play important roles as acute responders and long-term caregivers in times of communal crisis. When a community has experienced a significant crisis (natural or human-made) they benefit from the immediate and long-term care…

Faith Formation for Multi-Racial Contexts

M467INT 3.00 Credits
Term Date: January 25 - May 7, 2021 Mark Hicks Meets Thursday 10 AM - Noon Central Time (may not meet every week)
This class will explicitly explore how the process and practice of faith formation promotes the ongoing development of multi-racial, multicultural and theologically diverse congregations.

New Testament

ML BS425INT 3.00 Credits
Term Date: January 25 - May 7, 2021 Jared Beverly Meets Tuesdays, 7-8:30 PM Central Time, four times throughout the term (other work will be asynchronous)
In this class, we will become acquainted with 1) the corpus of narrative, poetry, letters, and gospels that comprise the New Testament and 2) the variety of interpretive strategies that have been used to understand that library. We will discuss the history…

Preaching as if You Mean It

M327INT 3.00 Credits
Term Date: January 25 - May 7, 2021 David Schwartz Meets weekly, Monday 10-11:30 AM Central Time
A great professor of homiletics once said that all ministers must face the hard question, "How far would you go to hear yourself preach?" If the answer is to be " A long way," then the sermons we preach will need to be both worthy in their content and…

Social Engagement

M346 3.00 Credits
Term Date: January 25 - May 7, 2021 Mike Hogue Meets Thursdays 2-5 PM Central Time (may not meet every week)
Replaces Community Studies II. The work of compassion, justice, and collective liberation is integral to religious leadership in the 21st century, and for many progressive and liberal religious leaders, it is holy work. We live in a world beset by numerous…

Tools for Parish and Nonprofit Administration

M301INT 3.00 Credits
Term Date: January 25 - May 7, 2021 Felicia LaBoy Meets Monday 2-4 PM Central Time (may not meet every week)
Regardless of the context in which they serve, whether in parish or community settings, religious professionals are expected to "do it all." Along with the call to provide moral, ethical, and pastoral leadership, we are also asked to meet the demand to…

Vocational Studies: Communities

M348 3.00 Credits
Term Date: January 25 - May 7, 2021 Tandi Rogers Meets Thursdays 2-5 PM Central Time (may not meet every week)
Replaces Congregational Studies II. This Spring semester course is linked with an approved, 20-hour a week, congregational or community internship. The focus of this Spring semester course is on the work of ministry in diverse communal and congregational…

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