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Seeking a regular practice, a daily activity that can deepen your spiritual life?
Looking for a Lenten community through dark winter into the light of springtime?
Interested in growing in comfort and 'fluency' with the Bible?

In this course we will try different ways to bring Bible readings into our daily life, working with the weekly selection of verses provided by the Revised Common Lectionary.* We will gather together in an extended workshop (Friday evening and all day Saturday) to start to build community and ready ourselves - discussing and trying out a practice (a way of working spiritually with the readings) and considering the season of Lent, the narrative of Jesus’ death and resurrection, and what it might teach us about the power of Life to overcome death, in all of its manifestations.

At the beginning of Lent we will reconvene online. Each week Therese will outline a suggested practice. During the week she will provide prompts and queries and will share her own experience with the week's practice. Our community will grow as each of us shares our own experiences of daily practice and responds to what others have shared.

This course requires a time commitment of 30 minutes per day of daily spiritual practice. In addition you should expect to spend 60 to 90 minutes (spread over the week) online, reading and listening to the resources Therese provides, posting your experiences and responses, reading and responding to your fellow students.
*http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu

Therese Miller thought she would be a nun or a social worker when she grew up. This combination of social and spiritual inclinations have continued to be the ways she experiences God’s call in her life. She has always felt a “motion of love” toward people in community and is continually drawn to work that allows her to create “spaces” for people to see and experience the world and each other in new ways. She was one of the original founders of Heeding God’s Call, a fast-growing national movement of faith communities organizing to prevent gun violence. After completing "The Way of Ministry" program of the School of the Spirit, Therese found herself called to invite others from that program to communal, online reading and sharing of the Common Lectionary as a spiritual practice. This program grows out of that rich experience. Therese is a member of Lewisburg Meeting, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.

Allison Randall will accompany Therese in this ministry and provide her guidance and support as her spiritual elder.

tuition $105

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About Online courses: We use Moodle: an online program that organizes information and your responses to it so that it’s easy to learn.
For the full experience, you will need: a speedy internet connection and a recent browser - Firefox 3 or later; Safari 3 or later; Google Chrome 4 or later; Opera 9 or later; MS Internet Explorer 7.

Course expectations:

• 1 hour to 90 minutes of work online per week (reading and forum posts.) And 30 minutes per day for spiritual practice. (And the willingness to forgive yourself and come back to the course if you miss a week!)
• Online interaction is part of the course. You support the learning of everyone else by your participation. You will be expected to contribute something to the discussion forums (if only “I have no answer to this question...”) at least twice a week.
• If you will be absent for more than 3 days or must drop the course, you are expected to post a message in the community forum letting the other course members know.