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Old Testament Professor Steven Tuell is currently teaching the first online course in the M.Div. program.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning Oct. 6, I will be teaching a four-week, completely online Continuing Education course called \u201cSpiritual Leadership for a New Day.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pts.edu\/www.pts.edu\/Spiritual_Leadership\">Register online.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One advantage of this approach: It\u2019s not bound by space and time. Whether you live in Indiana, Pa., or Pensacola, Fla., you can fully participate in this class. At the beginning of each week students will listen to a mini-lecture, in which I introduce the work for that week and highlight important themes. Participants will read selected material, and have opportunity to engage in dialogue with one another, and receive feedback from me.<\/p>\n<p>There are several things about this course that excite me, but I\u2019m most excited about the material\u2014how ministry leaders can be soul friends, people who can guide and companion congregations through the wilderness as they discover the new things God is doing in their midst, and participate in.<\/p>\n<p>Psychologist and spiritual director Gerald May once wrote, \u201cWhen the spiritual life feels so uprooted, it can be almost impossible to believe\u2014or even consider\u2014that what\u2019s really going on is a graceful process of liberation, a letting go of old, limiting habits to make room for a fresh openness to love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many of our congregations feel uprooted; they are trying to find their way in a rapidly changing cultural context. We need leaders with the capacity to help them discover how to let go of the \u201cold, limiting habits\u201d and embrace the \u201cfresh openness to love\u201d that God is making possible.<\/p>\n<p>This course will explore\u2014through short lectures, readings, and online discussion\u2014what I think are three key leadership capacities of leaders who want to be soul friends to their communities. We will look at:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>How to create environments to discern the leading of the Spirit<\/em>. This means, in part, creating safe spaces where people can name what their congregation is going through, and begin to imagine new possibilities.<\/li>\n<li><em>How to lay aside their own agendas<\/em>. In order to lead like a soul friend, leaders need to know when they are trying to push through an agenda, and learn how to lay aside their anxieties so that they can truly lead a community in discernment.<\/li>\n<li><em>How to increase our capacity to \u201cbe with\u201d those we serve<\/em>. Our communities are not problems to be fixed, and they don\u2019t need leaders who have the answers, but leaders who can journey with them on the exciting adventure into a \u201cnew openness to love\u201d, into a new day of mission.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I hope many will join me in this course, itself a kind of adventure, as we together\u2014instructor and participants\u2014explore a way of leading that can nourish and help us thrive\u2014leaders and communities together\u2014in God\u2019s new day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The Rev. Dr. L. 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