Praying with Ignatius of Loyola to identify your deepest desires and how God animates your life. This weekend retreat will explore life and wisdom of Ignatius of Loyola and engage some of the essential prayer methods he popularized in the Spiritual Exercises. Learning how to pray with these tools will help you begin to discern …
View course details “Ignatian Retreat (Part I) Where Are You Most Alive?”
After many months of social distancing, people might wonder what they could receive from engaging in an in-home silent retreat. But an intentional “date” to be together with God in seclusion and silence is different than Covid aloneness. God is always with and within us, beckoning, inviting. It is through an interlude of chosen silence …
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Register by March 8th to receive a free copy of O. Wes Allen’s Determining the Form. Join The Rev. Kim Jackson, The Rev. Dr. O. Wesley Allen and The Rev. Magrey R. deVega and other celebrated preachers on this three-day online preaching conference focused on preaching the texts of Easter with focus on on preaching …
View course details “UPSIDE/DOWN: Preaching Reversal in a Hybrid World during Easter”
Dive into Scripture and explore its rich poetic depths. Develop comfort and insight around biblical poetry, familiarizing yourself with its conventions, common idioms, and literary devices. Deepen your confidence in drawing on biblical poetry for ministry, learning to effectively incorporate it into your preaching. Together we will explore biblical metaphor, imagery, and other forms of …
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Deepen your knowledge of the Johannine Epistles with this exegetical, theological, and pastoral study of 1, 2, and 3 John. Encounter the God of Love in these short but meaty letters and develop your exegetical skills, seeking to apply John’s instruction to our context today. In-Person, Online & Recorded: This course is being offered in-person at …
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Learn from Palestinian Christians by reading their theological contributions from the last 30 years. Deepen your understanding of the sociopolitical realities that contemporary Palestinians face while reflecting on the Palestinian Evangelical perspective. Together, we’ll explore major historical and theopolitical concerns, studying a theology of the land, the Kairos document, the relationship between the two testaments …
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Explore how lament deepens and enriches the Christian longing for shalom, God’s setting right of the world. Together we’ll study various artists who have utilized the biblical categories of shalom and lament to develop a complex language of grief and lamentation—particularly through music. Discover the centrality of hope in these artistic responses, hope that emerges …
View course details “Longing for Shalom: Musical Lament in the Christian Imagination”
Read and interpret the book of Proverbs in its original context while uncovering its lasting significance for faith and practice today. Study and grasp the contents of the book while learning the principles of interpretation (hermeneutics) that grant access to meaning. Proverbs’ purpose is to make its readers wise on a practical, ethical, and theological …
View course details “The Book of Proverbs: Developing Wisdom in a Complicated World”
Learn from the Gospel of Matthew with careful exegesis, developing both a sound exegetical method and related application. Discern Matthew’s message by comparing and contrasting this gospel to the other synoptic texts, and attempt to master the basic content of Matthew’s narrative. Together we’ll focus on select passages in Matthew and address some of the …
View course details “Matthew: Jesus and the Renewed People of God”
Is there a divine purpose in my people’s history? Can we discern God’s action in a world of natural causes? Why has God allowed this suffering? Such questions require both simple faith and complex reasoning. Learn to live out the answers by engaging with the political, scientific, and pastoral aspects of the doctrine of providence. …
View course details “Providence: Understanding God’s Ways in the World”
