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    Welcome
    Zoom link for Thursday lectures (1.30-4.30PM) , Meeting ID: 899 6422 6919)
    16 February - 22 February
    Laidlaw Orientation at all Campuses
    Timetables and Textbooks (on the Laidlaw website)
    23 February - 1 March
    Whakapapa and Context Lecture Notes Part A (really!)
    Lecture Notes: Whakapapa and Context B
    Lecture One: Whakapapa and Context Powerpoints
    Video 1: Welcome to the Course
    Video 2: Course Introduction
    Video 3: Introduction to Part 1: self-understanding
    Video 4: Is Spirituality Civic?
    Video 5: Whakapapa and Context
    Video 6: Place, Blood and Belief
    Video 7: God in our stories
    Video 8: Kintsugi
    Optional Video: What Does the Genealogy of Jesus Teach Us? (Tim Keller)
    Required reading 1 - Kelly - Personhood and Presence
    Required Reading 2 - Houston - The 'Double Knowledge'
    Optional Reading: "The Whakapapa of Jesus" by Wayne te Kaawa
    Optional Reading: Kintsugi, from "Art and Faith: A Theology of Making"
    Music: Britten's Fugue, from "Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra"
    Poem: Choruses from the Rock (1) by T S Eliot (1934)
    Discover the Jesse Tree, by Colleen Prestrich
    Audio: Psalm 90, read by Bryden Black
    Valuing My Story: Concluding Exercise
    2 March - 8 March
    Ministry and Identity Part A
    Ministry and Identity Part B
    Powerpoint Slides: Ministry and Identity
    Video One: John Begins Ministry
    Video 3: Ministry and Identity: CAIRA
    Video 4: John emerges into light
    Required Reading 1: "Little Enemies" from "Love in Hard Places" by D. A. Carson
    Required Reading 2:"The Joy of Not Being God" from "Night of the Confessor: Christian Faith in the Age of Uncertainty" by Tomas Halik
    Required Reading 3: "In the Image of God He Created Them" by Catherine McDowell
    Optional Reading: Sands, "Imago Dei as Vocation"
    Poem: That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire G M Hopkins
    Song: I Will Change Your Name (Neblett Family)
    9 March - 15 March
    Lecture Notes: Embodiment Part A
    Lecture Notes: Embodiment Part B (updated)
    Lecture Notes: Embodiment Part C
    Powerpoint: Embodiment
    Video 1: Introduction to Embodiment
    Things John learned from the baby
    Video 2: Devotion: The Incarnation and Christian spirituality
    Video 3: Wayne Cordeiro: Dead leader running
    Video 4: An invitation to Sabbath
    Required Reading 1: "The Death of Christ" from "On the Incarnation" by St Athanasius
    Required reading 2 - Gooder - The Imprisoned Soul?
    Required reading 3 - Spaite et al. - Health from God's Perspective
    Optional Reading: On Onions, from "Supper of the Lamb" by Robert Ferrar Capon
    Optional reading 1 - Green - What Does It Mean to Be Human?
    Optional reading 2 - Gooder - Biblical Spirituality for the Whole Person
    Optional reading 3 - Benner - Presence and Encounter
    Optional reading 4 - Wright - Surprised by Hope
    Optional reading 5 - Gula - Sexuality
    Optional podcast - Burnout and How to Complete the Stress Cycle
    Song: Jesus of the Scars (Graham Kendrick)
    23 March - 29 March
    Lecture Notes: Love, Unity and Feet: Ministry from the Upper Room A
    Lecture Notes: Love, Unity and Feet B
    Powerpoint: Love Unity and Feet
    Video 1: Love, Unity, Feet: Introduction
    Video 2: The Beatitudes
    Video 3: John Donne, Death and Glory
    Video 4: Cross and Resurrection
    Required Reading 1: No Ordinary People Chapter 4, by Paul Henderson
    Required reading 2 - Rolheiser - Holy Longing
    Optional Reading 1: The Washing of the Feet by Joseph Ratzinger, from "Jesus of Nazareth: Holy Week Entrance to Jerusalem to the Resurrection"
    Optional Reading 2: Royal Road of the Cross, from "Imitation of Christ" by Thomas a Kempis
    Audio Play: "The King's Supper" by Dorothy L. Sayers
    Poem: Death be not proud, by John Donne
    Video: "Death be Not Proud" from "Wit" (2001)
    Song: O Sacred Head Sore Wounded
    The Beatitudes, sung by the Valaam Monastery
    30 March - 5 April
    Lecture Notes: Take Up Your Cross: Call of Christ A
    Lecture Notes: Call of Christ B
    Lecture Powerpoints: Call of Christ 1
    Video 1: Ministry as Vocation
    Video 2: The Call of Christ
    Video 3: Henri Nouwen: You are the beloved
    Video 4: The Freedom of Faithfulness
    Video 5: Dave Andrews – Jesus says “I AM the Good Shepherd”
    Video 6: My Sheep Know My Voice
    Video 7: Lectio Divina: Psalm 23
    Video: Nouwen, Romans 8 and the Death of our Ministry Idols
    Required reading 1 - Foster - Prayer
    Required reading 2 - Willard - Hearing God
    Optional reading 1 - Morse - Making Room for Leadership
    Breath prayer
    6 April - 12 April
    Lecture Notes: Call of Christ Presence A
    Call of Christ Presence B
    Miriam's Lecture Slides - Call of Christ 2
    Video 1: Call of Christ (2) Introduction
    Video 2: The Promise
    O Come O Come Emmanuel, Chris Tomlin
    Video 3: Lectio
    O Radiant Dawn, James MacMillan
    Video 4: God with us
    Video 5: "I am here"
    Video 6: The light on the face
    Video 7: Walking with Jesus
    Required reading 1 - Bonhoeffer - Prayerbook of the Bible
    Optional reading 1 - Athanasius - Letter to Marcellinus
    Audio Play: "The King of Sorrows" by Dorothy L. Sayers
    Poem: At the Lighting of the Lamps by Ursula Mary Bethell
    20 April - 26 April
    27 April - 3 May
    Crawley - Lecture handout - Week 11
    Lecture notes - Dying and Rising With Christ
    Video 1: Introduction
    Video 2: The power of old and new narratives
    Video 3: Goodbye Lenin!
    Video 4: Personal reflection
    Oh Lord You're Beautiful - Keith Green
    Required reading 1 - Morgan - What Is Narrative Therapy
    Blank Table: Dying and Rising with Christ in Paul
    4 May - 10 May
    11 May - 17 May
    18 May - 24 May
    25 May - 31 May
    1 June - 7 June
    8 June - 14 June
    15 June - 21 June
    Course information
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    Student questions and issues
    Timetables and Textbooks (on the Laidlaw website)
    Checking for inadvertent plagiarism- test through Turnitin
    How to access and interpret Turnitin score and feedback
    SBL referencing guides
    Laidlaw's General Regulations
    Instructions for accessing library eBooks
    Requesting a Book from Henderson - Distance Students
    How to access Proquest and EBSCO Databases
    Video guide: Assessment 1: Case Study
    Additional Assignment Resources
    Mid-Semester Course Evaluation
    End of Semester Course Evaluation
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