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1999-01 Practices of Ministry
1999-2001 Colloquy on Teaching The Practices of Ministry  Dates JJune 2-6, 1999 - First Summer Session at Wabash College June 7-11, 2000 - Second Session at Wabash College June 6-10, 2001 - Third Session at Wabash College  Leadership Team Herbert Anderson, Catholic Theological Union Lucinda Huffaker, Wabash Center   The Wabash Center convened a ...

2006 Women as Teachers
2006 Conference on Women as Teachers and Mentors  Dates August 9-13, 2006 - Wabash College  Leadership Team Shannon Clarkson, San Francisco Theological Seminary Letty Russell, Yale Divinity School Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza, Harvard Divinity School Judith Plaskow, Manhattan College Lucinda Huffaker, Wabash Center   Description: This week-long consultation gathered women who are teaching in ...

2006 Pastoral Leadership
2006 Conference on Pastoral Leadership for Public Engagement Dates: July 31 to August 4, 2006 - Wabash College A conversation focused on the participants’ sensed need for seminaries to deepen their ability to help congregations respond more adequately to local, national and global public tragedies. The small group of committed scholars, teachers and activists ...

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Sharing Faith: A Comprehensive Approach to Religious Education and Pastoral Ministry
The long-awaited masterwork from the author of Christian Religious Education in which he applies the "shared praxis" approach to the whole of religious education and pastoral ministry. (From the Publisher)

God's Potters: Pastoral Leadership and the Shaping of Congregations
Pastoral ministry is an occupation in flux. In this comprehensive study Jackson Carroll considers the many factors — changing roles among clergy and laypeople, the opening of ordination to women, an increasing shortage of clergy, and more — that are shaping congregations and ministers today. Building on Paul’s image of Christians ...

"Interprofessional Education in Theology and Social Work: Postmodern and Practical Theological Dimensions"
In this essay the authors posit that interprofessional education is inherently "post-modern"and thus will incorporate educational priorities compatible with postmodernism, and that practical theology is the preferred method for interprofessional teaching and learning when theology and ministry are explicit participants. In advancing this argument they draw upon their experience ...

"Introducing Ministry and Fostering Integration: Teaching the Bookends of the Masters of Divinity Program"
The challenge of integrating knowledge, practice and vocational identity is a persistent challenge to theological educators. Cahalan describes how teaching two book-end courses in the M.Div. curriculum have opened up possibilities for integration as a process and a goal of the entire curriculum. In the course, Introduction to Pastoral ...

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Salsa Music and Cultural Health
One of my social media names is “salsasanchez,” a not-so-subtle hint that I love everything about salsa music! Its history, genres, sounds, musicians, and, of course, the dancing! As a bass player, the only thing I love more than dancing salsa is playing the salsa groove on my instrument—or ...

Body Matters: Learning to Listen to Ourselves
A college friend of mine took his life by suicide when he was only twenty-two years old. The death occurred just weeks before I began seminary in 1987. Theological study offered me a refuge in which to grieve Bill’s death and to try to make sense of it. I wrote ...

Resourcing the In-Between: Teaching and Learning Pastoral Care During Pandemic
Caught In-Between Questions “I always figured my music came from somewhere between,” said singer-songwriter John Prine in an old interview.[1] I’ve been listening to his music as part of praying for health, and now mourning his death to this pandemic. We are in an in-between time, caught in-between mourning ...

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Leadership and Management for Pastoral Ministry
A 2017 course by Regina Wentzel Wolfe at Catholic Theological Union "explores the responsibility those called to ministry have to provide effective administrative and managerial leadership whether they serve in increasingly complex parishes, religious congregations, diocesan offices, or other Church related organizations. The course gives particular attention to the theological and ...

Pastoral Ministry
A 2012 course by Mark Livingston at Baptist Missionary Association Theological Seminary surveys "church organization and administration, finances, and staff relationships and the understanding of varied ministerial contexts."

Introduction to Pastoral Counseling
A 2012 course by Loren Townsend at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary "provides a foundational orientation to pastoral counseling as a practice of ministry and as a theological bridge discipline connecting ministry and marriage and family therapy."

Pastor and People
A 2014 course by Mark Fowler at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary surveys "the responsibilities, tasks and relationships of the pastor within various contexts." The course "provides practical guidance for pastoral visitation, use of time, stewardship, congregational communication, conducting weddings, funerals and public ceremonies, prison visitation as well as ecumenical and inter-faith relationships."

United Methodist Polity
A 2012 course by Charles Brockwell at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary on United Methodist polity.

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Assessment of the Impact of Specialized Theological Education on Pastoral Ministry
The Project will help assess the effectiveness of seminary faculty in preparing students for pastoral ministry shaped by healthy boundaries and good judgment in pastoral relationships. The outcome of this assessment will serve to better prepare seminary faculty to effectively provide specialized teaching in theological education. In turn, the preparation ...

Learning From Our Graduates: Alumni Experiences of Ministry and the Revision of Our MDiv Degree Program
Project funding will support the reconfiguration of how religion, theology, and pastoral ministry skills are taught to the rapidly-changing student body in our MDiv program. This project will support twelve faculty members each interviewing three alums who have graduated since 2003. As a seminary that remains deeply committed to our MDiv ...

Partners in Ministerial Formation: Shifting the Pedagogical Center (for the Expanding Ministry Formation into New Pedagogical Contexts RFP)
This project proposes a new model for creating cooperative pedagogical spaces for ministry formation. Wake Forest University School of Divinity will convene a year-long seminar in 2012-13 for ministry leaders and theological educators to develop cooperative pedagogies of ministerial formation, which will be implemented in newly designed courses to be ...

Bridging the 'Classical'/'Practical' Divide: Pitfalls and Possibilities of Seminary Partnered Teaching in Bible and Pastoral Theology
The unfortunate divide that still exists between the so-called ‘practical’ and ‘classical’ disciplines often leaves seminary students unable to integrate their curricular work and engage in effective ministry. Fragmented learning can all too easily lead to fragmented ministry. This project aims to encourage and develop a collegial model of sustained ...

Ministry Formation in Jewishly-Grounded, Seminary-Based Clinical Pastoral Education
The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) now requires all rabbinical students to complete units of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE). Our Center for Pastoral Education is unique in that it operates in a multi-faith context (open to seminarians and clergy of all faiths) and, whereas most CPE programs are situated in hospitals, ...

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Mentoring: Biblical, Theological, and Practical Perspectives
In Mentoring: Biblical, Theological, and Practical Perspectives, Thompson and Murchison provide a thoughtful collection of essays on Christian mentorship. As a whole, this collection contributes to the growing body of scholarly work on mentoring by offering “windows on mentoring that are biblically grounded, theologically informed, communally diverse, and generationally attentive” (3). ...

From Lament to Advocacy: Black Religious Education and Public Ministry
This resource sets forth the cultural imperatives of ministry and the contextual nature of a public theology of religious education that connects faith formation and action in addressing profoundly difficult, unjust, and wounding experiences of Black people in society. The book begins with the, often neglected, practice of lament as ...

How Youth Ministry Can Change Theological Education - If We Let It
Acutely aware of the North American religious landscape, the editors introduce the volume by noting two ironies – a vast majority of young people subscribe to a superficial understanding of self, God, and the world, and those who are more complexly informed are often mistakenly considered by youth ministries to be “...

Interreligious Learning and Teaching: A Christian Rationale for a Transformative Praxis
Published in the Fortress Press series, “Seminarium: The Elements of Great Teaching,” this affordable, concise volume is targeted for Protestant seminary professors in particular but will also be of value to those working in Christian higher education and ministry, more generally. The teacher-friendly format features three chapters of text by ...

Play and the Human Condition
Thomas Henricks’ Play and the Human Condition provides a valuable guide to the academic study of human play. Henricks has been teaching at Elon University since 1977 as a sociologist. He has been studying human play since his PhD dissertation, which explored the relationship between sports and social stratification, and he ...