Spring Term 2024

Meets Tuesdays 10 AM-Noon. This required course in theology introduces students to an interdisciplinary and engaged way of doing theology that integrates aspects of liberal and liberationist theological traditions, attempts to bridge modern and postmodern…

Meets Wednesday 2-4 PM (may not meet every week). With guests from diverse religious traditions, this interactive course explores world religions in relation to the multicultural and multifaith dynamics of globalization. MDiv required course.

Meets Wednesday 6-8 PM (may not meet every week.) <br /> 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…

Zoom meetings Fridays Noon- 2PM.<br /> This course will provide students with a broad introduction to the most important traditions within the global religion known as Buddhism. Students will be introduced to Theravada or Classical Buddhism, Zen Buddhism, Tibetan…

Meets Mondays 2-4 PM. This course introduces ethics by analyzing central debates in public life. Our conversations will cover a range of topics, including war, abortion, prisons, assisted dying, sexual choices, environmental racism, and distributive justice…

Meets Wednesdays 10 AM-Noon Central Time. <br /> 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…

Meets Thursday 3-5 PM Central Time. (May not meet every week.)<br /> 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 2-4 PM (will not meet every week). <br /> 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 6-8 PM (may not meet every week). <br /> 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…

This course explores theories and theologies of liberation and practices of faith activism from a wide diversity of contexts. Pre-req for non-doctoral students: Grounding.

Meets Thursdays 10 AM-Noon (may not meet every week).<br /> 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 worship that…

Meets Thursdays 3-5 PM Central Time. (May not meet every week.)<br /> 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…