This module continues our comprehensive instruction on spiritual care within long-term care settings. Building on foundational knowledge from Module One, this course offers practical skills and theoretical insights tailored to the unique challenges of this environment. Sessions will cover topics such as dementia, spiritual struggle, and providing care across various faith traditions.

Jesus groups in the first and second centuries engaged in extensive experimentation with the boundaries of communal identity. The diversity of these experiments led to conflict, both within groups and between groups and outsiders. We can find evidence of these conflicts preserved within the writings of these early groups, most often in the context of discussions of the status and role of women. Gender was an important tool both in identity experimentation and formation for these groups, and therefore in setting boundaries as well. While later Christianity became fiercely patriarchal, we can still recover the voices of those who challenged conventions of gender in their negotiations of their Jesus group identities. The Acts of Paul and Thecla offers one significant opportunity to hear these voices, and this course will use this little known story to frame our discussions of how communities of the Anointed discovered and developed who they were.

Dialogue for Peaceful Change (DPC) is an international program that has brought together the best methods from around the world in community-based conflict mediation, providing effective tools and strategies for analyzing and addressing conflicts. This is a program can be used for conflicts and disputes in communities, families and organizations moving beyond traditional mediative methods, focusing on conflict content, culture and spirituality.

The hands-on 5-day training gives you the opportunity to practice the stages of conflict mediation and to apply the tools of “meditative behavior” in a realistic context.

Participants receive international accreditation as DPC Facilitators upon completion.

Join Dr. John Dominic Crossan and Dr. Tripp Fuller Luther for a Lenten Online Class starting in February! Learn at your own pace, and tune in for incredible live Q&A's with:

Brian Zahnd, founder and lead pastor of Word of Life Church

Brian D. McLaren, author, speaker, activist, and public theologian.

Jennifer Garcia Bashaw, Associate Professor of New Testament and Christian Ministry at Campbell University in North Carolina

Dr. Diana Butler Bass, award-winning author, speaker, preacher, and one of America’s most trusted commentators on religion and contemporary spirituality.