Modules, Curriculum & Devotionals
developed by
Rev. Dr. Mark Mattes, Rev. Dr. Ken Jones,
Dr. Trisha Wheelock & Rev. Andrea Severson
Rev. Dr. Yolanda Pierce
August 2022
Module: Rediscovering Your Call through Storytelling
Resource Recommendation: In My Grandmother’s House: Black Women, Faith and the Stories We Inherit by Yolanda Pierce
Module Devotion
Dr. Tod Bolsinger
September 2022
Module: Seminary Didn't Prepare Me for This: Leadership and Adaptation
Rescource Recommendation: Tempered Resilience by Tod Bolsinger
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Rev. Dr. Leah D. Schade
October 2022
Module: Controversial Topics and the Pulpit
Resource Recommendation: Preaching in the Purple Zone: Ministry in the Red-Blue Divide by Leah D. Schade
Other Resources: Discovering our Theologies of Conflict
Dr. Angela Gorrell
November 2022
Module: The Importance of Joy
Resources Recommendation: The Gravity of Joy by Angela Gorrell
Rev. Stephen Peterson
December 2022
Module: Satisfaction and Sustainability
Resource Recommendations: Pastoral Imagination: Bringing the Practice of Ministry to Life by Eileen R. Campbell-Reed
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Rev. Dr. Russell Lackey
February 2023
Module: Virtuous Cycles, Strategy, and Mission
Resource Recommendation: "Creating Virtuous Cycles" by Dave L. Odom and "How to Turn a Viscous Cycle in Ministry into a Virtuous One" by Russell L. Lackey
Reverends Nicole & Grant Woodley
March 2023
Module: Think Like a Farmer: Traditioned Innovation
Resource Recommendation: Bet the Farm by Beth Hoffman
Rev. Sarah Ciavarri M.Div. PCC, CDWF-C, CDTLF
April 2023
Module: Beyond the Jordan
Resource Recommendation: Finding Our Way to the Truth: Seven Lies Leaders Believe and How to Let Go of Them by Sarah Ciavarri