Spring Term 2022/2023

Meets Thursday from noon-2 pm Feb 2 & 23, March 9, 23, 30, April 6 & 27, May 4 & 11 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…

Meets Wednesday 7-9 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…

Meets Thursday 3-5 PM Central Time, Feb 23, Mar 9 & 30, Apr 27, May 4 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…

Meets Tuesdays 10 AM-Noon 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…

Meets Mondays 10 AM-Noon (will not meet every week). 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…

Meets Mondays, 3-5 PM Central Time (may not meet every week). This course explores how to strategically create learning experiences in light of how children and adults learn and grow. Students should expect to grapple head-on with models of cognitive…

Meets weekly, Wednesdays 10-Noon, 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…

The aggregate expertise, research, teaching, activism, and pastoral experiences of theologians and pastors at the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Pastor Conference afford an unprecedented opportunity for seminarians to partake in a specially designed intensive…

Meets Tuesdays 7-9 PM Central Time (may not meet every week). This course will provide a framework for creating worship in a culture that is becoming more diverse and where organized religion is losing adherence. Students will consider how to create…

Meets Thursdays 3-5 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…