DIOCESAN SCHOOL FOR MISSION & MINISTRY COURSE ENROLLMENT (FALL 2025):

2025 FALL offerings:

  • Church History & THEOLOGY II

  • ANGLICAN LITURGY, WORSHIP, & COMMON PRAYER

CLASSES MEET ON SATURDAYS BEGINNING SATURDAY, AUGUST 30th*

Registration for credit toward a certificate or diploma is $330 per course. Registration as an auditor (i.e., one who attends a class informally without earning credits toward a certificate or diploma) is $85 per course.

8:30 am - 1;30 pm Church History & Theology II | Deacon John Pegues

12:00 - 5:00 pm Anglican Liturgy, Worship, & Common Prayer | Canon Aaron Jeffrey

*CLASS MEETING SCHEDULE:

  1. Saturday, August 30

  2. Saturday, September 13

  3. Saturday, September 27

  4. Saturday, October 18

  5. Saturday, November 1

  6. Saturday, November 22

Students enrolled in both classes meet from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm. Students enrolled only in Church History & Theology II meet from 8:30 am to 1:30 pm. Students enrolled only in Anglican Liturgy, Worship, & Common Prayer meet from 12:00 to 5:00 pm.

Saturday Schedule:
8:30 am-9:00 am | Morning Prayer
9:00 am-12:00 pm | Church History & Theology II
12:00 pm-1:30 pm  | Holy Eucharist & Meal Together
1:30 pm-4:30 pm | Anglican Liturgy, Worship, & Common Prayer
4:30 pm-5:00 pm | Evening Prayer

COURSE DESCRIPTIONS & REQUIRED TEXTS

Church History & Theology II: In this class we will focus on the rise and development of the Christian faith from immediately after the New Testament up to when it became the official religion of the Roman empire, at the end of the fourth century and then through the Middle Ages the Renaissance.  Most people know almost nothing about this formative period in the history of Christianity, and a good bit of “common knowledge” about early Christianity is simply modern myth. By the end of the course, you will be well-versed in the historical realities by having read ancient Christian sources themselves and becoming bona fide, budding authorities.  At least that’s our goal. The second half of this course will focus on the period from the Renaissance to the present.   

For those of us who are a part of the Christian Church, our history is not something to be discarded as foreign, or cut-off from our time. Church history is a recognition that all that the Church is today, has been informed, shaped, and influenced by what has gone before. To investigate church history is to dig the depths of who we are, and as we do, it is my hope that we come to a better understanding of what it means to be faithful to Jesus in our own day.

Required Texts:

Christian History, Volume 2: From the Reformation to the Present Kindle Edition by Thomas S. Kidd (Author) 

Documents of the Christian Church 4th Edition by Henry Bettenson (Editor), Chris Maunder (Editor)

Anglican Liturgy, Worship, & Common Prayer: Why do Anglicans do what they do? This course explains the conviction that liturgy is not simply something Anglicans “attend” on Sunday, but the very form of Christian life - a way of being that shapes how the Church exists and acts in and for the world. Over six sessions, students will discover how liturgy unites worship, theology, and daily discipleship in five key ways:

  1. Worship shapes your whole life. Liturgy is not just a religious ritual but a cosmic event in which heaven and earth meet, forming the Church for mission and everyday life.

  2. Theology comes from worship. True understanding is born from prayer and community - experiencing all things in relation to God - rather than from detached speculation.

  3. Worship and daily life are inseparable. The Holy Eucharist provides a grammar for Christian living: receive God’s grace, offer yourself in thanksgiving, commune with God and neighbor, and be sent out in mission.

  4. Worship makes the world holy. Liturgy consecrates time, matter, bodies, households, labor, and economy, revealing creation itself as sacramental.

  5. Faith must become practice. Daily Christian practices give traction to worship, mending the “fateful divorce” between liturgy, belief, and daily life.

By the end of the course, participants will see how Anglican liturgy is not confined to the sanctuary but is the Church’s way of knowing, living, and serving - a theology that prays, a worship that teaches, and a faith that acts.