Doctor of Ministry Colleague Seminar I

The first of your Colleague Seminar courses explores the social and contextual challenges within American religious life, and innovative responses to them through readings, guest presentations, and collegial sharing. Following each of the course sessions, students will reflect on the relevance and salience of the challenges and strategic adaptations for their own ministry settings and how this engages fundamental theological issues from the perspective of their personal beliefs and within their specific faith tradition. The culmination of the course is a paper in which a student identifies a specific situation in their ministry setting that they believe, based on course readings and experiences, needs to be changed; propose a realistic change outcome; discusses possible action strategies for realizing the desired change; and identifies the salient theological themes and tenets at stake in the situation and change process. Required of first-year D.Min. students