This course helps students discern practical approaches to working toward mutually respectfully, caring, and just communities in a variety of work and community settings. The course will help participants reflect on their own gifts and life's work, interpersonal dimensions of workplace relationships, ministering to organizational systems, and strategies for systemic change in communities. The course will explore how images of collective life rooted in the biblical image of the reign of God can be translated into contemporary societies and community life with respect for persons of varying backgrounds and traditions.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
Diehl, William E. The Monday Connection. Reprint ed. San Francisco: Harper,
1993. ISBN# 0-0606-1860-4 (paperback).
Harmer, Catherine. The Compassionate Community: Strategies
that Work for the Third Millennium. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1998. ISBN# 1-57075-196-X.
Palmer, Parker. The Company of Strangers. New York: Crossroad, 1983. ISBN# 0-8245-0601-4 (paperback).
Wheatley, Margaret, and Myron Kellner-Rogers. A Simpler Way. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 1998. ISBN# 1-5767-5050-7 (paperback).
LIM online courses are available for 3 graduate semester credits or 3 continuing education units.
Graduate students will participate in the class by:
CEU students will participate in the class by: