Preaching the Seasons
A Hybrid Event
Dates
In person meetings at PTS: Oct. 5, Nov. 2, and Dec. 14, 2018, Jan. 25, March 1, and April 5, 2019 / 9:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. - SOLD OUT
Online sessions: Online content will be uploaded during the time between in-person meetings. These sessions will be available for participants to review and respond to at their convenience, i.e., offered asynchronously.
Overview
This monthly series will be delivered in a hybrid format: occasional face-to-face meetings interspersed with online contact between. The series will help pastors prepare for upcoming sermons according to the liturgical calendar (Ordinary Time, Advent, Epiphany, Lent, Easter, and Pentecost). Understanding of biblical languages is helpful but not required.
Instructor
James Platt, Lecturer in Scripture, PTS, and Scholar in Residence, Northway Christian Community, Wexford, Pa.
Registration / Directions / Required Texts / CEUs
Fee: $90; Maximum enrollment 15 This class is SOLD OUT!
Directions / Parking / Lodging
Directions to PTS Free parking is available on the Seminary campus. There will be directional signs from the parking lot to the class location for the face-to-face meetings. Campus map
Lodging is available at the Seminary if you wish to arrive on Thursday evening or stay over Friday night. To make reservations for a room, e-mail or call 412-924-1397.
Required Texts
Robert Farrar Capon. (1988). The Foolishness of Preaching: Proclaiming the Gospel against the Wisdom of the World, Eerdmans.
The Revised Common Lectionary: 20th Anniversary Edition. Augsburg Fortress Publishers; Annotated, Revised, Anniversary edition (Sept. 10, 2012).
CEUs: 2.0 for clergy and laity
Questions
Call 412-924-1345 or e-mail .
