Year One
Summer: Congregations in the 21st Century course at Seabury
January: Congregational Systems course at CDSP, Research and Writing Course at CDSP
All Year:
Core Group On-Line Participation
- Ministry Critical Incident Report
- Reading Reflections
Elective Course
Year Two
Summer: Community Organizing for Missional Living course at Seabury
January: Diversity and Context course at CDSP, Writing the Thesis Proposal course at CDSP
All Year:
Core Group On-Line Participation
- Dialogue around Each Student's Congregational Study
Congregational Study Submitted
Elective Course
Year Three
Summer: Nonprofit Management course at Seabury
January: Nonprofit Management and Community Development course at CDSP
All Year:
Core Group On-Line Participation
- Thesis Proposal
- Thesis Writing
This is not hyperbole: Seabury's DMin program transforms lives, strengthens ministries, and leads students to ask, "Why didn't I do this earlier?"
Seabury's community organizing course always gets high marks from students in the seminary's DMin in Congregational Development track. Stephen Applegate, rector of St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Granville, Ohio, says the reason is simple.
Leaders from across the church learned that it takes two to tango during
Susanna Singer is taking the fear out of academic writing. In the two years Seabury and CDSP have partnered in the DMin program, she has become known for demystifying the process of writing a thesis.
Anyone who remembers Robert Preston’s portrayal of con man Harold Hill in The Music Man can be forgiven for casting a wary eye at the Rev. Randolph Charles. He may be a priest, but something about the phrase “Music Story Method” suggests we’ve got trouble, right here in River City.
Susan Harlow, Seabury Western Seminary’s director of congregational development, understands congregational life from the ground up—or at least from the floor boards.
What does Seabury's DMin program mean to you personally? We explored that question with the Rt. Rev. Diane Jardine Bruce, suffragan bishop of the Diocese of Los Angeles.