September was busier than I anticipated and the amount of material to get through to prepare this initial course took a little longer than planned. October is busier still, so the doors will not be opening this week as suggested. However, course prep continues and the topic outline of this initial course is firming up.…
Author: Tim Mansfield
Bishop Tim is the rector of the Parish of St Uriel the Archangel in Sydney and Bishop of New South Wales. He serves on the Apostolic Council of the AJC. He was ordained in 2008 and consecrated to the episcopacy in 2012.
Yet more topic ideas
Lots of people gave great written responses to the list of more topics. Here’s a few that came up: interacting constructively with different faith groups, especially hostile ones vestments and gear roles of bishop, priest and deacon and the minor orders what is the theology of the practices we do? related organizations and overlaps, other…
Format and pace of Johannite School
From the surveys we sent out, we could work out a few things: most people (60%) wanted self-paced courses most people wanted it delivered through a web platform most people would be OK with it coming view email most people liked videos as a medium, some people preferred text most people don’t want conference calls…
Plans for course curriculum over the next year
We’ve run a couple of surveys of church members in Australasia and North America to ask “what would you like to study courses about?” We got some pretty consistent answers in terms of popularity and priority. These are the beginners topics ranked by importance to the people who answered the survey: Understanding the principles and…