Pigeons,
I am thinking ahead to the summer and feeling that it would be good to take a class. I haven’t been in school since 2011 and that feels like too long.
I have looked at overseas immersions for the study of the refugee crisis and I am investigating Spanish language classes at my local community college but I would really welcome ideas for residential study in the field of theology, Biblical studies, or history. I feel like my academic chops are in need of strengthening.
Individual directed study ideas also welcome. I have never taken a class on the Prophets or on the epistles and I feel the lack of that frequently for my own understanding, even though I am not ministering within a tradition that requires me to preach from Scripture.
Thanks for your suggestions!
Gather a crew and fly me in. [Don’t think I haven’t thought about that. If I could handle the Texas heat I’d hire you to stay at home and tutor me.- PB]
Here is a one-week session at my alma mater, Yale Divinity School. It is taught by 2 professors whose lectures and preaching I enjoyed while I was there.
“Christian Preaching of Old Testament Texts” by David Bartlett and Robert Wilson, June 13-17.
http://summerstudy.yale.edu/classes/christian-preaching-old-testament-texts
Consider the Vancouver School of theology or McGill in Montreal or Pine Hill at Dalhousie in Halifax. You’d be spending time in great “summer” cities and since the Canadian dollar is in the sewer you’d save a lot of money. If you picked Montreal or Halifax you could drive up. And big bonus – you’d have a break from Trumpery.
If you want to stay in the area, check out the summer courses at the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry. I’d take M. Shawn Copeland if she was teaching the phone book, but that’s just me: http://www.bc.edu/schools/stm/summer/summercourses.html
Here’s what I would love to do, but doesn’t fit my schedule this year.
http://www.kenyoninstitute.org/programs/beyond-walls-spiritual-writing-at-kenyon