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Candler School of Theology

 

Contextual Education I

  • What our Students Say...
  • "Accepting the hospitality of the Holy Comforter community helped me to see that at the heart of contemporary debates about the nature of our institutions and our systems of care are religious questions - questions about worldly and otherworldly justice, about the nature of healing, about what it means to be human, and what it means to live in community."
    - Kathryn Bryan, 07T
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Fall Semester

Spring Semester

Contextual Education I Reflection Group

During the first year of Contextual Education, students are placed in a social service or clinical setting, unless they are enrolled in the Teaching Parish or Anglican Studies track. Four hours of weekly engagement at these sites during the entire academic year give students the opportunity to experience various ministries and pastoral relationships. In the first semester, students also meet weekly with their Contextual Education site group and site supervisor on campus. In the second semester, a faculty member joins the weekly reflection group.

Introductory Arts of Ministry Class

The anchor for contextual education in the curriculum is the contextualized Introductory Arts of Ministry classes in the fall and the Contextual Education weekly reflection group in the spring. In the fall, Contextual Education I students are enrolled in one of six three-hour Introductory Arts of Ministry classes, each class coordinated with two contextual education sites. Contextual Introductory Arts of Ministry courses for Fall 2008 include:

These classes are designated exclusively for first-year students. Two Contextual Education groups are placed together in one Introductory Arts of Ministry class.