Pastoral Integration Draft Syllabus KNP3663

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1 Pastoral Integration Draft Syllabus KNP3663 Pamela McCarroll Tuesdays 11am-1pm Course Description This course is a final integration course for those nearing the completion of their M Div degree. It is intended to integrate the multi-disciplinary aspects and courses of the MDiv into the practice of ministry. Students will participate in seminars intended to prepare them for realities of ministry while also engaging their reflective capacity developed throughout the program. They will prepare some papers for certification for ordination process, further develop their theology of ministry, undertake development of their ministry profile, participate in the ATS Profile of Ministry (level 2) process, develop a Learning Covenant for themselves in ministry. In small groups they will explore scenarios in ministry and clarify their own theology and practice of clergy clothing, weddings, funerals, meetings, conflict etc. based upon the theological, biblical, historical, pastoral and contextual analysis. As well, throughout the course they will familiarize themselves with spiritual practices intended to sustain them in ministry and with ministry resources intended to support them for ongoing learning, intellectual and practical stimulation in ministry. Course Outcomes By the end of the course students will: - Demonstrate a theology of ministry that engages contextual realities, the self as minister, and reflects biblical, theological, pastoral and historical integration into their practices of ministry; - Have developed a Learning Covenant with themselves for the first year in ministry including intellectual, physical, relational, spiritual practices to sustain them in ministry; a referral list for pastoral practice; a ministry profile; a list of priorities and resources for continuing education/formation and peer group support in ministry. - Have developed an integrated response to the theology and practice of ordination in their respective denominations; - As well, it is expected that this course will enable students to engage/ demonstrate most outcomes of the MDiv curriculum. COURSE POLICIES Policies for courses are contained in the TST Basic Degree Handbook and the Knox Student Handbook. In particular note: Cell Phones: Cell phones can be disruptive to the classroom experience. Students, therefore, should turn off or set their phones to silent and refrain from using them while in class. Cell phone use is permitted only for medical professionals who are on call and for students who need 1

2 to be in constant contact with ill family members or minors. Students who meet either of these requirements should inform the professor prior to class. Use of Technology: Laptops and other computing devices may be used in the classroom for note taking purposes only. The use of the internet is not permitted while class is in session unless it is part of a specific class activity. Students wishing to text message, search for images, fact check etc. should do so during the break or outside of class. Much of the learning that goes on in the classroom is founded upon mutual disclosure that takes place between the instructor and the student and between students. Parties outside of that learning community have not committed themselves to this relationship of trust. For this and other reasons, permission to record lectures in audio format is granted for use by registered students only. Video recording is not permitted without the written permission of the instructor. Recordings and notes of class lectures may not be electronically reproduced, posted or distributed without the written permission of the instructor. Late Policy: one grade (4 marks) deducted per week late. Completion of Course work: All course work must be completed by the due date of final paper (December 15, 2015). Only in the case of illness (with a note from a doctor), bereavement or other unusual circumstances will an SDF extension be considered and this must be authorized by the Faculty. A request for a SDF extension must be submitted in writing by the last day of the class to the Registrar or the Director of Academic Programs who will refer the matter with a recommendation, to the Faculty for final decision. Attendance and lateness: Consistent and timely attendance is required. If a student is unable to attend a class the professor is to be informed by . More than 2 absences will result in failure to pass the course. Habitual lateness will be regarded as absence. correspondence: Papers and assignments are accepted in hard copy only, preferably on recycled or re-used paper. Communication by can ONLY take place through UTOR accounts. Plagiarism Policy: See TST Basic Degree Handbook and the Knox Student Handbook. EVALUATION 30% - Regular engagement in course material, seminar participation and leadership, regular attendance and evidence of having come prepared for class, evidence of having attended minimum of 1 Con Ed event. - There will be several short assignments (Ministry Praxis Summaries, POM, Personal profile, ordination statement). The Ministry Praxis Summaries will be submitted for a 2

3 minimum of 2 topics. All students are expected to come to class prepared to discuss practice and theology of identified topics (including resources available). Reflections on the topics discussed can be integrated into the first longer paper. Note: - Spiritual Journal students are encouraged to keep a regular spiritual journal throughout the semester where they will record their spiritual practices and discern practices to carry forward into ministry. This will be reported and assessed in the final culminating papers. - Resources for Ministry students are required to follow minimum of 4 different magazines/journals/ websites that help keep them abreast of theological reflections on practices of church and ministry. As well, students are required to research available resources for each topic and read at least one of the recommended texts (McCarroll x 2 and/or Peterson). This will be reported and assessed in the mid-term and/or final culminating assignment. (see list below under required readings). - Resource Template students will develop a resource template that will be shared in group (week 6), and integrated into the final culminating paper. 35% - Theology and Practice of Ministry Paper present your theology of ministry through a reflection on context, self as minister, and the biblical, theological and historical priorities in your understanding of ministry. Demonstrate how your theology of ministry is lived in your practices of ministry for example, clergy clothing, worship, weddings, baptisms, funerals, communion, community building, pastoral care, meetings, conflict, etc.. Feel free to consider pastoral image as part of this reflection. If you are in the PCC, consider this to be one of your theology papers for submission toward ordination/designation (see Appendix J, Book of Forms, PCC). You should include references that function as conversation partners in your reflections and a bibliography of researches that have been and continue to be important for your theological praxis of ministry, including required readings for this course. 10 pages Due November 10 (can be re-submitted) 35% - Culminating Assignment and Learning Covenant present a summary and learning covenant of practices/plans for ministry in the areas listed below. Please cover the following areas: o Stewardship of mind and engagement in world - follow and become acquainted with 4 regular resources for ministry (magazines, websites, journals, etc), and identify sources for news. Assess which ones you will continue to read for ministry. Develop an annotated bibliography of books (ministry-related, novels, poetry, etc) /journals/magazines you plan to read in the first year of ministry (2+ pages). Demonstrate having attended at least one Con Ed event in the semester. (registration confirmation receipt, etc) o Stewardship of spirit Identify your spiritual type and discuss spiritual practices tracked in spiritual journal throughout semester, assess how to continue to foster spiritual practices in ministry. How can actual duties of ministry serve your spiritual life? (2 pages max) 3

4 o Stewardship of the body discuss physical activity and practices throughout semester and plan for ministry (include activity, eating, sleeping, etc). How might physical activity constitute spiritual practice for you? (1 page) o Stewardship of time discuss practices of time management throughout semester and plan for ministry, include an anticipated rough regular weekly schedule. Be sure to set apart time for reading, news, preparing worship, spiritual practices, physical care, family. (1 page) o Stewardship of relationships peer group, spiritual director, mentor, ministerial discuss your present practices and plans for when you are in ministry. Also consider your relationships with loved ones spouses, children, parents, friends. o Submit final resource template (approx 2 pages listed websites and local contacts you seek to make in your first year) o Identify items that emerge in your POM and through your learning in the program so far areas of gifts, challenge and vulnerability and how you will (and do) tend to these in ministry.(2 pages) o Summarize the items above in a Learning Covenant with yourself. Include areas for further learning and anything else you think would be helpful for 1 st year ministry.(approx. 2 pages, point form) Due December 15 Weekly Schedule Week 1 Sept 15 Introduction and Orientation to course Appreciative Inquiry Activity Week 2 Sept 22 Spiritual Types, Journal and Practices for Ministry - Corrine Ware, Discover Your Spiritual Type (Alban, 1995) - Sandra Krebs & Jane Kise, SoulTypes (Augsberg Fortress, 2006) POM Questionnaire Due Week 3 Sept 29 Designation/Ordination & Clergy Clothes an integrating approach Ordination Preamble/ questions response - see Candidacy Process Supplement V Submit 1-page response to ordination preamble, subordinate standards and questions as a means to frame your intention to consent. Refer to you denominational documents. Week 4 - Oct 6 Funerals - An integrating approach - PCC, Book of Common Worship, pp

5 - Thomas G. Long, Accompany Them With Singing: The Christian Funeral (Westminster John Knox, 2013) - Thomas G Long & Thomas Lynch, The Good Funeral (Westminster John Knox, 2013) Week 5 Oct 13 Weddings An integrating approach - PCC, The Book of Common Worship, pp Peter Coleman, Christian Attitudes to Marriage: From Ancient Times to the Third Millenium, (SCM Press: London, 2004). - John Witte Jr., From Sacrament to Contract: Marriage, Religion, and Law in the Western Tradition, 2nd ed., (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1997). - Thomas Knieps-Port Le Roi and Monica Sandor, eds., Companion to Marital Spirituality, (Leuven: Peeters, 2008). Week 6 Oct 20 The Call Process, Profile Referral Service, Susan Shaffer, Ministry and Church Vocations, PCC Personal profile for call process Reading Week Week 7 Nov 3 Lester Randall Preaching Festival - TBC Week 8 Nov 10 RENEW CONFERENCE - TBC Remembrance Day and special services Theology and Practice of Ministry Paper Due Week 9 Nov 17 Conducting Meetings and conflict - Links on blackboard Speed Leas, Discover Your Conflict Management Style, Alban Institute, Arthur Paul Boers, Never Call them Jerks: Healthy Reponses to Difficult Behaviour (Rowman & Littlefield, 1999) Week 10 Nov 24 POM Report Presentation An integrating approach Week 11 Dec 1 Paper Presentations/discussion Week 12 Dec 8 Paper presentations/discussion Culminating Assignment Due Dec 9 5

6 Some available Con Ed Events Toronto Preaching Festival Featuring Leonard Sweet, Fleming Rutledge, Pam McCarroll, Anthony Bailey Yorkminster Baptist Church Sunday Nov 1- Tuesday Nov 3 **Knox College RENEW Con Ed Program - Nov Required Reading Eugene Peterson, The Pastor: A Memoir (Harper Collins, 2011) autobiography as pastor and/ or Pamela R. McCarroll, At the End of Hope-The Beginning: Narratives of Hope (Fortress, 2014) people s stories of adversity and there discerning God s possibility in pastoral practice and/or Pamela R. McCarroll, Waiting at the Foot of the Cross: Toward a Theology of Hope for Today (Pickwick, 2014) a theological reflection on North American context and discerning God s possibility Resources for Ministry any 4 of the following (or others upon agreement of professor) The Presbyterian Record; Sojourners; Touchstone; Christian Century; Christianity Today; Call to Worship; Weavings; Journal for Preachers; Reformed Worship; Ploughshares Monitor; The Catalyst; The Living Pulpit: America; ministrymatters.com; FB church leaders, etc. Resources identified in syllabus and accumulated together for areas of discussion. POM Questionnaire and process - $50 cheque made out to Knox College (not later than Sept 30) Recommended Reading Allan Hugh Cole Jr, From Midterms to Ministry: Practical Theologians on Pastoral Beginnings, Eerdman s, John A. Berntsen, Cross-Shaped Leadership: On the Rough and Tumble of Parish Practice, Alban Institute, Nadia Bolz-Weber, Pastrix: The Cranky Beautiful Faith of a Sinner and Saint, Jericho,

7 Kathleen Cahalan, Introducing the Practice of Ministry, Liturgical Press, Pamela & Michael Cooper-White, Exploring Practices of Ministry, Fortress, Jaco Hammon, Becoming a Pastor Michael Jinkins, Letters to New Pastors, Eerdman s Pub. Co., Corinne Ware, Discover Your Spiritual Type, Rowman & Littlefield, 1995 Bibliography Carl III, William J. Ed. Best Advice: Wisdom on Ministry from 30 Leading Pastors and Preachers. Westminster John Knox Press, Epperly, Bruce G. and Katherine Gould. Four Seasons of Ministry: Gathering a Harvest of Righteousness. The Alban Institute, McIntosh, Gary L. One Church Four Generations: Understanding and Reaching all Ages in Your Church. Baker Books Root, Andrew. The Relational Pastor: Sharing in Christ by Sharing Ourselves. IVP Books, Willimon, William H. Pastor: The Theology and Practice of Ordained Ministry. Abingdon Conflict Ronald Richardson, Creating a Healthier Church, Fortress, Speed B. Leas, Discover your Conflict Management Style, Alban, Weddings PCC, The Book of Common Worship, pp Peter Coleman, Christian Attitudes to Marriage: From Ancient Times to the Third Millenium, (SCM Press: London, 2004). John Witte Jr., From Sacrament to Contract: Marriage, Religion, and Law in the Western Tradition, 2nd ed., (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1997). Thomas Knieps-Port Le Roi and Monica Sandor, eds., Companion to Marital Spirituality, (Leuven: Peeters, 2008). Funerals PCC, Book of Common Worship, pp

8 Thomas G. Long, Accompany Them With Singing: The Christian Funeral (Westminster John Knox, 2013) Thomas G Long & Thomas Lynch, The Good Funeral (Westminster John Knox, 2013) The Minister s Family Randall, Robert L. The Eternal Triangle: Pastor, Spouse and Congregation, Fortress Richardson, Ronald. Becoming a Healthier Pastor: Parish Systems Theory and the Pastor s Own Family. Augsburg Fortress Congregational Size Mann, Alice. Raising the Roof: The Pastoral to Program Size Transition. Alban Institute The In-Between Church: Navigating Size Transitions in Congregations. Alban,1998. Gaede, Beth Ann, ed. Size Transitions in Congregations. The Alban Institute, Leadership Friedman, Edwin. A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix. Seabury Books The Edwin Friedman Estate 1999, Hirsh, Sandra Krebs & Kise, Jane, Soul Types: Matching your Personality and Spiritual Path, Fortress, Palmer, Parker. Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation. Jossey-Bass Peter Steinke, Congregational Leadership in Anxious Times, Alban, Wimberly, Edward P. Recalling our Own Stories: Spiritual Renewal for Religious Caregivers Jossey- Bass, Autobiography and Biography Achtemeier, Elizabeth. Not Til I Have Done: A Personal Testimony. John Knox Applegate, Debby. The Most Famous Man in America: the Biography of Henry Ward Beecher. Three Leaves Press Doubleday New York Barclay, William. A Spiritual Autobiography. Eerdmans Publishing Co Beuchner, Frederick. The Eyes of the Heart: A Memoir of the Lost and Found. Harper, Cottret, Bernard. Calvin: A Biography. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co Ferm, Robert L. Jonathan Edwards The Younger : A Colonial Pastor. Eerdmans

9 James, Eric. A Life of Bishop John Robinson: Scholar, Pastor, Prophet. Wm Collins Sons Taylor, Barbara Brown. Leaving Church: a Memoir of Faith. Harper San Francisco, Thomas, W.K. Down-To-Earth Cherub: The Life and Legend of Finlay Stewart. Welch Pub1983. Name: Date: Leader or Participant (please indicate) Ministry Praxis Summary - Reflecting on Theology and Practice of Ministry 1. What is the issue? Clergy clothing, meetings, conflict, weddings, baptism, funerals, Remembrance Day, special service (clarify), other (please state) 2. Briefly describe your previous experience/understanding of this issue. 3. Identify gaps/ questions - What are some of the challenges for you pertaining to this issue? Consider a situation that might catch you off guard. 4. Reflect more deeply: a. How might your social identity, pastoral identity and life experience intersect with the issue? b. What are some contextual considerations of this issue? 9

10 c. What pastoral dimensions are important for this issue? d. What are some biblical reflections/passages that are important for this issue? e. What are some theological dimensions/questions pertinent to this issue? f. What are some historical dimensions pertinent to this issue? 5. Describe a practice of ministry that integrates your reflection in terms of this issue. 6. List helpful resources for reflecting on this issue (websites, articles, books). 10