Have you considered a class at our diocese’s Episcopal School for Ministry? While it’s true many in the ordination process take the three year sequence of nine classes, also enrolled are lay members seeking to deepen their faith and understanding of our history and traditions. Some elect the full sequence of classes and others choose one or two topics of deep interest.
When you speak with an ESM student or grad, you understand that the experience is much richer than a more typical learning environment. Some suggest the similarity to a retreat or seminar. In each term a student selects one course, such as Christian Tradition, then engages with the material when the class meets over three Friday-Saturdays, and two additional half Saturdays.There is individual reading, study, and assignments between class meetings. Students and faculty share meals and fellowship, worship together, in addition to class work. (more…)
Bishop Wayne Smith commends to us this article from the Anglican Communion News Service (online link). Posted June 4, 2010 3:23 PM
Members of the worldwide Anglican Communion are working together on a project to discover what the Bible tells the church about saving the planet from environmental damage.
The Bible in the Life of the Church project manager, Stephen Lyon, said that World Environment Day was the perfect moment to reveal that the first issue under discussion would be the Environment.
“We are already seeing the impact of climate change, particularly in the developing world,” he said. “Most Anglicans live in countries like India and Nigeria that will be worst hit by greater flooding, or diminishing levels of potable water.
“All faiths have a duty to protect the environment, for themselves and others. Our particular tradition, Anglicanism, has enshrined the need to protect our world in its mission statement The Five Marks of Mission*. This is one of the reasons why we have picked this issue—to ensure that all Anglicans everywhere realise the biblical imperative to protect and sustain God’s creation.
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When you speak with an ESM student or grad, you understand that the experience is much richer than a more typical learning environment. Some suggest the similarity to a retreat or seminar. In each term a student selects one course, such as Christian Tradition, then engages with the material when the class meets over three Friday-Saturdays, and two additional half Saturdays.There is individual reading, study, and assignments between class meetings. Students and faculty share meals and fellowship, worship together, in addition to class work. 
