Course Catalogue 2026-2027

Contextual Education seeks to equip students with the theological acumen, pastoral instincts, and personal/spiritual dispositions that are required for cultivating a sense of call in the flux of 21st century religious life. Questions of gifts, growing edges and discernment of call are inevitably part of this reflective process. Contextual Education intends both to reflect on and to re-imagine modes of religious practice that can contribute to the healing of each other and of creation.

This course orients Basic Degree students to research methods in academic and professional scholarship. Library and other research skills will be refreshed. Students will learn philological, hermeneutical, archival, quantitative, and qualitative research methods. Research ethics will be discussed. Students will learn how to write a research proposal for a major project.

One-year pastoral internship under the supervision of a Pastor.

A three-month full time internship in a parish setting, immersing the student in the dynamics of congregational life.

As a course in church leadership and ministry, our learning will be first grounded in an understanding of the Church; what it is and what it is for. Together we will explore the implications of what it means to say that the Church is the body of Christ in the world. In the context of a deeply rooted ecclesiology we will then begin to understand what it means to be a Christian leader in the Church, exploring practical areas of ministry including: nurturing the traits and disciplines of healthy Christian leadership, developing others as leaders, leading and managing change, dealing with conflict, cultivating missional organizational practices, implementing sound financial management, developing effective church communications, building an integrative ministry to children, and cultivating healthy community connections.

As a course in church leadership and ministry, our learning will be first grounded in an understanding of the Church; what it is and what it is for. Together we will explore the implications of what it means to say that the Church is the body of Christ in the world. In the context of a deeply rooted ecclesiology we will then begin to understand what it means to be a Christian leader in the Church, exploring practical areas of ministry including: nurturing the traits and disciplines of healthy Christian leadership, developing others as leaders, leading and managing change, dealing with conflict, cultivating missional organizational practices, implementing sound financial management, developing effective church communications, building an integrative ministry to children, and cultivating healthy community connections.

This seminar assists candidates as they prepare for priestly order and lay ministry. It will provide candidates with the opportunity to reflect on previous ministry experience, identify personal strengths, and anticipated areas of growth for future ministry.

One-year placement in a parish or mission under supervision; course is tailored to individuals.

The Psalter has been described as "an anatomy of all the parts of the soul" (Calvin) as it resonates with the human condition. The Psalter is also described as a prayer book of the Church and has resourced this practice through the ages. Further, the church understands Christ himself prayed these psalms and invites us to pray them in him. This course takes up these positions but additionally studies the means by which the Psalter spiritually forms those who prayerfully engage it. Along with immersive reading in the Psalter and Christian writers across the centuries, this course considers modern understandings of how texts affect and shape readers. Thus, the insights of studies in memory, wonder, lament and imprecation and more will open new considerations of how the Spirit works through the Word as the psalms are read and prayed. At its core, this course explores how a prayerful stance before the Psalter forms us in the responsive spiritual listening and freedom of the Christian life.

The Psalter has been described as "an anatomy of all the parts of the soul" (Calvin) as it resonates with the human condition. The Psalter is also described as a prayer book of the Church and has resourced this practice through the ages. Further, the church understands Christ himself prayed these psalms and invites us to pray them in him. This course takes up these positions but additionally studies the means by which the Psalter spiritually forms those who prayerfully engage it. Along with immersive reading in the Psalter and Christian writers across the centuries, this course considers modern understandings of how texts affect and shape readers. Thus, the insights of studies in memory, wonder, lament and imprecation and more will open new considerations of how the Spirit works through the Word as the psalms are read and prayed. At its core, this course explores how a prayerful stance before the Psalter forms us in the responsive spiritual listening and freedom of the Christian life.

The Psalter has been described as "an anatomy of all the parts of the soul" (Calvin) as it resonates with the human condition. The Psalter is also described as a prayer book of the Church and has resourced this practice through the ages. Further, the church understands Christ himself prayed these psalms and invites us to pray them in him. This course takes up these positions but additionally studies the means by which the Psalter spiritually forms those who prayerfully engage it. Along with immersive reading in the Psalter and Christian writers across the centuries, this course considers modern understandings of how texts affect and shape readers. Thus, the insights of studies in memory, wonder, lament and imprecation and more will open new considerations of how the Spirit works through the Word as the psalms are read and prayed. At its core, this course explores how a prayerful stance before the Psalter forms us in the responsive spiritual listening and freedom of the Christian life.

The Psalter has been described as "an anatomy of all the parts of the soul" (Calvin) as it resonates with the human condition. The Psalter is also described as a prayer book of the Church and has resourced this practice through the ages. Further, the church understands Christ himself prayed these psalms and invites us to pray them in him. This course takes up these positions but additionally studies the means by which the Psalter spiritually forms those who prayerfully engage it. Along with immersive reading in the Psalter and Christian writers across the centuries, this course considers modern understandings of how texts affect and shape readers. Thus, the insights of studies in memory, wonder, lament and imprecation and more will open new considerations of how the Spirit works through the Word as the psalms are read and prayed. At its core, this course explores how a prayerful stance before the Psalter forms us in the responsive spiritual listening and freedom of the Christian life.