{"id":1147,"date":"2008-10-22T00:05:24","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T04:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/?p=1147"},"modified":"2008-10-19T21:32:52","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T01:32:52","slug":"the-one-year-seminary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/archives\/1147","title":{"rendered":"The one year seminary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every once is a while (like last month, in fact) I get a call from a church leaders wanting guidance and ideas about creating a mini-seminary in their congregations. While that idea is driven by a desire to make Christian education more meaningful and effective in their congregations I am always suspect of that approach. I believe that any congregation will be well-served by taking Christian education more seriously, and, by go about its practice in more intentional ways. But I also believe that a seminary is one thing and a church another&#8212;and when it comes to educating in faith, the two should not be confused. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_1149\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1year.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1149\" src=\"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1year-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The One Year Seminary\" title=\"1year\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1149\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1149\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The One Year Seminary<\/p><\/div>However, I appreciate the well-intentioned efforts of those who want a more rigorous \u201cschool of faith\u201d in their congregations. For those, here\u2019s a sample curriculum for \u201cThe One Year Seminary\u201d (click on the chart for a full-sized view). As with any schooling approach, this model focuses on understanding core concepts and uses a course approach (classroom or seminar). <\/p>\n<p>For those who appreciate the more communal nature of the church and its need to educate in faith beyond a schooling model, I have a book coming out soon, co-authored with Marty Canaday, titled, <em>Planning and Organizing for Christian Education Formation: A Faith Community Approach <\/em>(Chalice Press). Watch for its release sometime next year. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.galindoconsultants.com\"><img src='http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/galindobanner5.jpg' alt='galindoconsultants.com' \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every once is a while (like last month, in fact) I get a call from a church leaders wanting guidance and ideas about creating a mini-seminary in their congregations. While that idea is driven by a desire to make Christian &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/archives\/1147\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4,37,36,20,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-christian-education","category-congregational-life","category-curriculum","category-teaching","category-theology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1147"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1153,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions\/1153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}