MPM601 provides a framework to create inspiring homilies, implement effective delivery, and incorporate contemporary scholarship of scripture through various approaches to sermon development.
This course is offered on Teachable© rather than in the GMU Classroom. After registering for the course, the student will receive a link to access its classroom in Teachable©.
This course offers an overview of contemporary social justice issues from the perspective of different faith beliefs in Christianity, lived experience and the work of interfaith networks to achieve structural transformation and societal change in a just world. It presents the prophetic call to do justice, and Catholic social justice teachings; develops pastoral strategies for addressing:
- reproductive justice as a human rights issue, and changing the conversation between Pro-Choice and Pro-Life on reproductive rights;
- discrimination based on racism, sexism and homophobia;
- violence and peacemaking;
- environmental justice; and
- economic exploitation.
This course is offered on Teachable© rather than in the GMU Classroom. After registering for the course, the student will receive a link to access its classroom in Teachable©.
MPM603 proposes a visionary framework for understanding the evolution of religions and specifically the transitions that continue to evolve in Christianity. Paul Smith, author of Integral Christianity, introduces the integral approach that Jesus advocated in his time and that traditional Christianity has been unable to see. MPM603 invites participants to analyze this framework and apply it to the present evolving changes occurring in Christianity, specifically the Roman Catholic Church. It raises the question, Can reform only come from within a faith tradition?
This course is offered on Teachable© rather than in the GMU Classroom. After registering for the course, the student will receive a link to access its classroom in Teachable©.