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401 Formation (HNS CHC DL) S2 2026

Teacher: Emma Brouwer
Teacher: Miriam Fisher
Teacher: Ryan Lang
Teacher: Zara Maslin
Teacher: Ashleigh Twist Milmine
Teacher: Kate Tyler
Teacher of group: Spanky Moore
Teacher of group: Simon Terrill

Welcome

13 July - 19 July

Laidlaw Orientation at all Campuses

Timetables and Textbooks (on the Laidlaw website)

eBook Link: Adele Calhoun's Spiritual Disciplines Handbook

Video: Meet one of your lecturers, Ryan Lang: Personal introduction

Meet One of Your Lecturers, Miriam Fisher

Meet one of your lecturers - Emma Brouwer - Personal Introduction

20 July - 26 July

Welcome to Formation Introduction Video

01 Introduction: What Is Formation - Intro Video

01 Devotional Video

01 Introduction: What Is Formation Part 1 Notes

01 Introduction: What Is Formation Part 2 Notes

Chapter: John Ortberg, “God’s Great Desire” from God is Closer Than You Think (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2005), 12-28.

01 Introduction: What Is Formation Part 3 Notes

eBook: Adele Ahlberg Calhoun, Spiritual Disciplines Handbook: Practices that Transform Us (Downer’s Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2015).

Listening Option: He Toka

Listening Option: Where Feet May Fail

Notes: NT Images of Formation

Chapter: Ruth Hayley Barton, "The Practice of Paying Attention" from Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership (Downer’s Grove, IL: InterVarsity press, 2008), 59-71

Chapter: Diane J. Chandler, "The Love of God: The Starting Place" from Christian Spiritual Formation: An Integrated Approach for Personal and Relational Wholeness: InterVarsity Press, 2014), 42-65

Video: Spirituality from a Pasifika Perspective

Miriam's Lecture Slides

27 July - 2 August

Recording of online distance learning tutorial #1

02 Belonging and Participation - Intro Video

02 Devotional Video

02 Belonging and Participation Part 1 Notes

Spiritual Practice (option 1): Breath Prayer

Spiritual Practice (option 2): Breath Prayers for Anxious Times

Image: Rublev's Trinity Icon

02 Belonging and Participation Part 2 Notes

Video: Baxter Kruger's story

Article: Sheila Pritchard, "Wells or Fences", Reality, February/March 1994: 21-25.

02 Belonging &amp; Participation Part 3 Notes

Video: Wonder Rush, "As Kingfishers Catch Fire"

Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins, "As Kingfishers Catch Fire"

Video: Miroslav Volf on "Resonance"

Video: Brian Zahnd, "The Gospel in Chairs"

Chapter: Philip Yancey, "Grace Avoidance" from What's So Amazing About Grace? (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2006), 193-206.

Handout: Taryn Dryfhout, Whāngai and Theological Adoption

02 Belonging and Participation Lecture Slides

3 August - 9 August

Images of God Intro Video

03 Devotional Video

03 Images of God Part 1 Notes

Video: “God” from The Bible Project

Video: “The art of the metaphor – Jane Hirshfield” TED-Ed.

Images of God activity - explanatory video from Maja

03 Images of God Part 2 Notes

Chapter: Sue Pickering, “Listening to God” from Spiritual Direction: A Practical Introduction (Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2008), 32-51.

03 Images of God Part 3 Notes

Article: Juanita Ryan, "Seeing God in new ways: Recovery from distorted images of God." The National Association for Christian Recovery, May 19 (2017).

Spiritual Practice: Adele Ahlberg Calhoun, "Names for Worshipping God"

Further images of God in Scripture

Article: Philip Halstead, "Flourishing through Healing Parental Wounds and Creating Space for the God Beyond," Pacific Journal of Theological Review 18, no. 1 (2023): 20-32.

Chapter: Mary C. Grey, “Struggling to Move ‘Beyond God the Father’” from Introducing Feminist Images of God (Cleveland, OH: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001), 7-19.

eBook: Dale and Juanita Ryan, Distorted Images of God: Restoring Our Vision (Westmont, IL: IVP Bible Studies, 2012).

Video: Tim Mackie, “God Has a Name... Many, Actually!” Bible Project

Lecture Slides - Emma - Images of God

10 August - 16 August

04 Double Knowledge - Intro Video

04 Directed Study: Double Knowledge

Listen: Rod Wilson, "Double Knowledge: James 1:23-24," Regent College, 2012.

Chapter: James Houston, "The 'Double Knowledge' as the Way of Wisdom," in The Way of Wisdom: Essays in Honor of Bruce K. Waltke, ed. J. I. Packer and Sven Soderlund (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2000), 308-26.

17 August - 23 August

05 Formation of the Whole Person - Intro Video

Devotion - Embodiment

05 Formation of the Whole Person Part 1 Notes

Chapter: Curt Thompson, “Emotion: The Experience of God,” from Anatomy of the Soul: Surprising Connections between Neuroscience and Spiritual Practices That Can Transform Your Life and Relationships (Carol Stream, IL: Salt River, 2010), 75-88.

05 Formation of the Whole Person Part 2 Notes

Image: Gloria Willcox, "The Feeling Wheel," The Gottman Institute

Chapter: Peter Scazzero, “The problem of emotionally unhealthy spirituality,” from Emotionally Healthy Spirituality: It's Impossible to Be Spiritually Mature, While Remaining Emotionally Immature (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2017), 9-37.

05 Formation of the Whole Person Part 3 Notes

Video: The Bible Project, “Nephesh”

Spiritual Practice: Adele Ahlberg Calhoun, “Prayer Walking,” from Spiritual Disciplines Handbook: Practices That Transform Us (Downer’s Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2015), 284-86.

Schlimm 2017 - The Central Role of Emotions in Biblical Theology

Elliott 2005 - "Emotion in the NT," from Faithful Feelings

Podcast: Becky Castle Miller and Geoff Holsclaw, “Are Our Emotions Part of the Discipleship Process," in Embodied Faith: On Relational Neuroscience, Spiritual Formation, and Faith, March 10, 2022.

02 Belonging & Participation Part 3 Notes

Referencing & Plagiarism DL workshop